LoneLady - Hinterland (Radio Edit)

What this video is

Released March 2015 alongside LoneLady's second album on Warp Records, 'Hinterland' sits at the intersection of Manchester's post-industrial creative mythology and a broader 2010s UK indie art-music resurgence. The video's warm analog palette and animation vocabulary deliberately invoke 1970s American broadcast culture — specifically Sesame Street and Soul Train — as counterpoints to the austere Northern English…

Why it matters

Represents a key artifact of mid-2010s UK post-punk revival meeting art-funk, occupying the lineage of Manchester's Factory Records-era legacy (Gang of Four, A Certain Ratio) while absorbing influences from Parliament-Funkadelic, Arthur Russell and Prince. The video's hybrid of live performance…

The director

Sheffield-born, New York-based interdisciplinary filmmaker, actor, performance artist and theatre maker. Commissioned by the BFI, UK Film Council, Creative England and Arts Council England. Won the Black Progress Trust Award for contribution to Arts and…