"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Hearts Hearts

This gentle chamber music cover of the classic Joy Division song "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is performed and arranged beautifully by Austrian group Hearts Hearts. And the wistful, touching narrative in the video reminds me a lot of Palace's song "Heaven Up There" previously here.

http://www.heartshearts.net/

"A Step" by Manu Delago featuring Pete Josef

This beautiful chamber version of "A Step" by percussionist Manu Delago featuring Pete Josef on vocals is tender and delicate...

Never ending stream which touched a million rocks
In the twists and turns of its course
Falling mountain tears with innocent seven degrees
Only your skin is between you and the earth, the ground below
In that moment every second lasts forever

A step that you will never regret
A step that takes away your breath
A step that you will never regret
A step and you're awake as it gets

New born, hovering and wishless with a sparkling mind
A post-peak cool and a pre-joint healing
With only three but three so dear
Not five thousand faceless here
The thread to the world outside is severed and you'll discover again

The step that you would never regret
A step that takes away your breath
A step that you would never regret
A step and you're awake as it gets

https://www.manudelago.com/
http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/artists/pete-josef/

"Crash" by Högni

What a fascinating track: "Crash" by Icelandic singer-songwriter Högni (he was in my beloved Gus Gus for a while). It's by turns a bit abstract post-rock, a bit chamber music, a bit electronic...

...and it doesn't hurt that he's so gorgeous, with that beautiful blond mane and his frozen beard.

https://www.erasedtapes.com/artist/hogni
https://www.facebook.com/HogniEgilssonMusic/

"Let My Key Be C" by Nils Frahm and Anne Müller

Simply glorious.
"Let My Key Be C" by Nils Frahm and Anne Müller.

http://www.nilsfrahm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/annemullercello

"The Golden Age" by Woodkid featuring Max Richter's "Embers"

"The Golden Age" by Woodkid featuring Max Richter.

From Woodkid (Yoann Lemaire):
“The Golden Age is the last single and video for my first album.

Throughout the process of directing videos for this story, I slowly removed all digital and post-production layers of my work to finally create this piece. It is somehow a postcard from my childhood, with memories and emotions from the countryside assembled together in a long, free, mellow piece. It’s about the child trapped inside, the haunting memories, the beautiful and the dark ones.

I wanted the camera work and acting direction to be very organic and carnal, in opposition to the digital, rigid and super-composed aspects of the previous videos. That’s why we decided to shoot everything handheld, without any mechanical movement and with no post-production. In that way, I would say this video is very different from the other ones.

It all started when I bought an original print by my favorite photographer, William Gedney, friend and contemporary of Lee and Maria Friedlander, who shot families in rural America in the sixties. I decided that this piece would pay tribute to the beauty of his work and the way he shoots boys and men in their environment, to the sensuality of his eye, which describes so well what I felt for other boys when I was younger.

In order to extend the song and create the right mood for this piece, I collaborated with composer Max Richter. He extended and re-recorded his piece ‘Embers’ to adapt it to the pace and tonality of ‘The Golden Age.’ Together, we created this very free ‘hybrid’ edit of the track, which tells so much about the pace of never ending childhood summers.
In a way, this piece is a final goodbye to four years of work and tour for this album.“

Wow. It reminds me of the work of Terrence Malick...

http://www.woodkid.com/