The 10 best music videos that lit up 2018
With some of the most eclectic and surprising releases of the decade, 2018 has been a great year of music. As an added bonus, the visual pairings for a lot of these stunning releases have also been a class apart. In our world of instant gratification and multimedia overload, music videos can still be a powerful way for an artist to introduce us to their creative world, unveil a new aesthetic, or offer an emotional short story, without demanding the attention that a TV show or feature-length film does.
This year, the format of the music video was redefined yet again as artists pushed the boundaries of what their audio-visual pairings can convey. While artists like The Carters, A Perfect Circle and Childish Gambino used videos to make bold political statements, acts like LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire gave us carefully constructed clips that could pass off as standalone art-house short films.
From sci-fi mind benders to surreal nightmares and everything in between, here is our pick of the 10 best music videos of the year: