GRIMES – “REALiTi”

Sometime in 2013, Grimes lost this gorgeous slice of digi-pop in the Ableton abyss when she scrapped the follow-up to Visions. Luckily for us, she found it again and promptly released this vibrant, acid-spiked video of her dancing and singing in front of Asian landmarks like a rogue firework. The best part is the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it clip of a teensy-weensy monkey having a snack.

AZEALIA BANKS – “WALLACE”

Webcams have come a long way since the heady days of MSN and Chatroulette: now you can literally turn your face into Azealia Banks in this black-and-white interactive video for “Wallace”, which uses webcam technology to insert your image into her face, like a mirror. “Music videos are as much of an artform as the music itself,” says Banks. “I’m thrilled to be part of a potentially ground-breaking new ‘norm’ in the future of making music videos.” Experience the ‘new norm’ properly on her website.

HOLLY HERNDON – “INTERFERENCE”

Our favourite sound art experimentalist has released this beautifully unique visual creation, which has just as many tentacles as the track itself. “Look outside, come with us, our hearts as one,” the subtitles beckon, as hands grasp beneath water, candles stand like buildings and greying, digital compositions dance and flicker like an apocalyptic flag waving in the wind. The intricate, fizzing electronics come ahead of her long-awaited second album Platform, which will be released on May 18 via 4AD.

DEV HYNES & NENEH CHERRY – “HE, SHE, ME”

Selfridges are flipping off gender norms with their Agender Project, their new gender-neutral pop-up department. With that in mind, Dev Hynes and Neneh Cherry have released this entrancingly stylish new video, which also doubles up as a campaign film. The clip stars Dazed 100’s Hari Nef and, if you couldn’t already tell from the swinging limbs, is choreographed by Ryan Heffington. Selfridges describes the clip as “a journey through space, captured in one single shot and showing the subtle push and pull between masculinity and femininity.” Sounds like fun.

RAE SREMMURD – “THROW SUM MO”

Bills, butts and more bills collide in Rae Sremmurd’s latest video for the insanely catchy strip-club anthem “Throw Some Mo”. It’s also got strippers twerking upside-down in roller skates, Nicki Minaj in a hot-pink teddybear coat using dollars as a fan, and Young Thug emerging from a van billowing weed smoke. Migos, Birdman and Mike Will Made It also show their face at the party. 

KANYE WEST – “ALL DAY”

Earlier this month, Kanye West premiered a McQueen-directed visual for “All Day” at a private screening in Paris. He’s since backtracked and decided to make this fiery BRIT performance the “official” video, commenting on Twitter that he “felt the Brits performance captured the energy of the record”. The clip features Kanye bouncing with a mob dressed in black, a lot of blowtorch action, Kim K clicking her fingers and Taylor Swift staring open-mouthed as if Kanye had literally burst into flames.

BJÖRK – “FAMILY”

Björk sews up her gaping broken heart after de-fossilising herself from a gloopy, metallic liquid in this masterful animation by Andrew Thomas Huang, who also directed her video for “Black Lake”, which is on display at her MoMA retrospective. The track itself merges dark, agitated strings with overlapping layers of Björk’s distinctive, cavernous vocals. The engrossing visual is, in fact, not an official video, but a moving album cover to accompany the Vulnicura artwork.

PINS – “TOO LITTLE TOO LATE”

This glittery pink, Saint Laurent-styled masterpiece for PINS’ cathartic post-punk track “Too Little Too Late” really manages to swallow you whole. Singer Faith told Dazed of the slow-mo clip, “I don't want to air our dirty laundry so I won’t divulge any more, all I will say is I still get a lump in my throat when I sing the song.”

KELELA – “A MESSAGE”

Earlier this month, we collated the darkest animations in cinema, and although this Daniel Sannwald-directed clip isn’t quite as sinister as those, it offers up an intense exploration of fragility, rejection and anxiety as Kelela’s half-submerged figure hacks off her dreads and transforms into a hallucinatory anime clip. The ice-cool Arca collab comes ahead of her much-anticipated Hallucinogen EP, which will be released on May 5. “The initial version of the song spilled out of us in about 25 minutes. Since then, it’s been like a sculpture that I’ve come to and refined over time,” she says of the track. “I’m so happy that I finally get to share it with all of you.”

ERRORS – “SLOW ROTOR”

This hyper-saturated CGI alien dystopia from synth-rock four-piece Errors fits somewhere between a post-apocalyptic video game and an advert for L’Oréal, as the visuals dance between a grubby, arte povera landscape and a glossy, white-cube minimalism. The video was directed by Dazed Visionary Rachel Maclean, who told us: “There is an artistic insincerity to having two aesthetics going on in one piece of work, but I have always been interested in the idea of a picture within a picture, or a world within a world. It was really fun to play to about with.”