Video View: Goldfrapp, Death Cab For Cutie and Hadouken!

Greetings, I'm Nate Lanxon and you're watching Video View, where we look at some videos and then talk about them.

The first video we're going to talk about this week comes from Goldfrapp, whose latest single 'Happiness' came out on the 14th of April.

The video is apparently a homage to the 1953 film Small Town Girl, though seeing as I haven't seen that, I can't tell you how closely they resemble each other.

What I can tell you is that the perennially self-obsessed Alison Goldfrapp appears as a few different characters in the video, popping up as a policewoman, a flower seller, a bus passenger and – don't snigger now – a bush trimmer. Tee Hee.

Next up we have the new single from American indie pop-rock band Death Cab For Cutie, who release their new album Narrow Stairs on 12 May.

'I Will Possess Your Heart' is the first single from Narrow Stairs and comes out on 5 May. It's a slow building eight-and-a-half minute epic, which combines a grooving bass line with their trademark lush-sounding instrumentation.

As you can probably see, the video is split between a performance by the band in some kind of frozen bunker and footage of a pretty girl walking around foreign lands while staring blankly off camera – a technique that shall henceforth be referred to as the Lost In Translation formula.

The band say that the new album will be a 'curve ball', with a louder and more abrasive sound than their previous releases. 

Well, last up this week it's Hadouken! and their latest single 'Declaration of War', which is out at the end of April.

Hadouken! are said to be a grindie band. For those of you sane enough not to know or care what grindie is, I'll tell you anyway and pollute your minds forever. Basically, it's a mixture of grime and indie, which sounds to me like a load of middle-class Top Shop kids playing at being urban.

The video is really cool though, and is a bit like Escape From New York, but instead of housewives wet dream Kurt Russell bringing the pain, it's those middle-class Top Shop kids playing at being urban.

That's it from me. I'm going home to think about how hardcore Snake Plissken is in Escape From New York. Until next week, take care.