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Superhumanoids mesmerize, Bill Callahan's dub fantasy and more in the music we tweeted this week

Future Islands: Walking Through That Door Artist Kymia Nawabi explores the confidence that deep love provides in a new stop-motion short film for Future Islands’ 2010 synth-pop song, “Walking Through That Door.” The animation, which features a bear and a Max-like character from “Where The Wild Things Are” in an Allison Schulnik-type of setting, took eight months to complete and was built entirely from Kickstarter …

Kitten Pyramid: Uh Oh

Fiona Apple's "Hot Knife," ARP's "High-Heeled Clouds," Tiki Disco and more in this week's music recap

London’s Kate Moross is making quite a name for herself in the music video game with her penchant for awkward camera panning and knack for trippy videos—and we couldn’t be happier about it. The latest to receive the Moross treatment is Washed Out, whose video for “Don’t Give Up” features impeccably edited, tight-focused footage of exotic animals. Moross manipulates hue and saturation in sync with …

Washed Out: Don’t Give Up

Fiona Apple's "Hot Knife," ARP's "High-Heeled Clouds," Tiki Disco and more in this week's music recap

Interweaving vocals anxiously writhe on top of clean percussion and a well-placed piano progression—and that’s just the start of “Hot Knife,” Fiona Apple’s latest single from her critically acclaimed 2012 album The Idler Wheel…. The song meets its match with a potent music video from famed filmmaker and former flame, Paul Thomas Anderson. The visuals are simple and direct, drawing upon the gravity of Apple’s …