SPOOKY BLACK – “WITHOUT U”

Spooky Black's grainy, VHS-style clip was filmed in the snowy forests of Minnesota, which make for a surreal, picturesque backdrop for his sad, balmy teenage angst. The twinkling triangle effects, slowed-down vocals and spidery, electronic drumbeats also add to the wintry melancholia of the video. As do Spooky Black’s matching monochrome turtlenecks and do-rags, of course.

KANYE WEST- “COLDEST WINTER”

There aren’t many things darker than classic fairy tales – and 'Ye's eerily enchanting video for 808’s and Heartbreak cut “Coldest Winter” plays out like a slice of The Brothers Grimm. Featuring a woman in a billowing white dress (who looks a lil' like Kim Kardashian) fleeing through a black-as-velvet, sleet-filled forest whilst being chased by deathly, cultish figures. This is winter at it’s most gothic.

LADYTRON – “DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH”

You can’t get much more snowy than this video from Ladytron. The band’s giant glacial faces are imposed into the ice white landscape, as they flick their powdery lashes and keep their matte, frosted hair beautifully in place. Fun fact: this catwalk-perfect track was used to soundtrack the 2008 documentary The September Issue, which documented the original ice queen, Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

BOOTS – “ALRIGHT”

When Miami-born Jordan Asher wasn’t busy being the most talked-out producer of 2013 (he co-wrote four songs on Beyoncé's career-defining album BEYONCÉ), he was making impressive, characteristically abstract work of his own. The video for ”Alright” is a bizarre combination of the elements, as a girl sets fire to a stick, with its twisting black smoke making a stark contrast to the whiteness of the snow. The video was directed by multi-disciplinary artist Cara Stricker, who’s stylish filmic creations often contain an element of the absurd.

WHITE LIES – “FAREWELL TO THE PLAYGROUND”

White Lies paint an accurate vision of wintry, English suburban boredom. Two kids play amongst a snow-blanketed deserted factory and a boy exercises alone, a medallion hanging between his ribs as he pummels a punch bag. Despite the tedium of a forgotten industrial town, the powdery snow renders the bleakness weirdly beautiful.

GRACE JONES – “LITTLE DRUMMER BOY”

There’s something vaguely sinister about an ebullient Grace Jones dressed up as a futuristic mannequin in furs and singing “Little Drummer Boy” to Pee-wee and the rest of the Pee-wee’s Playhouse gang. That’s not to say it’s not genius. Whilst this Christmas-themed video only hints at snow, Grace Jones still emerges from the wintry, ice-ridden air of outside… inside a parcel meant for the White House. It's gotta be seen to be believed.

THE FIERY FURNACES – “TROPICAL ICELAND”

Like all the best children’s pop-up books, this sketch-based visual creation from The Fiery Furnaces is colourful, twee and doesn’t make much sense. The band play spiky icicles like a glockenspiel, make snow angels with polar bears and swim with killer whales in an alternative universe where snowy mountains live beside palm trees and pelicans. This is all before everyone freezes in ice to the sound of discordant, overlapping piano and the book is firmly banged shut.

RUN THE JEWELS – “A CHRISTMAS FUCKING MIRACLE”

El-P and Killer Mike, aka Run the Jewels are Tiny Tim and Scrooge in this festive clip for their track “A Christmas Fucking Miracle”. Directed by Joey Garfield, it features the duo posing for Christmas cards, clinking glasses of sherry and rapping in the snow. “The beat breaks and your teeth break/keep your canines embedded in my knuckles as a keepsake” spits Killer Mike, in a blunt-talking track that seems to venture into subject but Christmas.

ARCADE FIRE  – “NEIGHBOURHOOD 3 (POWER OUT)”

This snow-peppered, sepia-tainted 3D animation for Arcade Fire’s “Neighbourhood 3 (Power Out)” features boys in hoods cutting the power lines to a 1920s steampunk city, while several old men in top hats chase them through the frosty streets. Whilst the track and video are based on actual events (a power outage in Montreal), Win Butler has spoken of the song’s dual meaning. “It really feels like there's a political element to that song,” he said in 2005. “It feels like in the States right now, the motives for the way we're acting are transparently hidden.”

KANYE WEST – “BOUND 2”

Suffice to say, the most talked about part of this 2013 video from Kanye West wasn’t the aerial shots of snowy mountains. But if you look beyond Kim Kardashian nakedly straddling her husband on a jittering motorbike, there they are. She must be freezing.