Mogwai - The Lord Is Out Of Control

What this video is

Released in December 2013 as the second pre-album single from Rave Tapes, Mogwai's eighth studio album (Rock Action / Sub Pop, January 2014), 'The Lord Is Out Of Control' marks the Glasgow quintet's most pronounced embrace of electronic texture and vocoder-processed melody to date. The video's Hawaiian location — volcanic coasts, dense palms, black coastal water — functions as a geographically displaced but…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark in post-rock music video culture: eschewing performance footage entirely in favour of a landscape-and-body conceptual film, it reflects the genre's alignment with art cinema rather than pop promotion. The slow editing pace and desaturated palette became touchstones for the…

The director

British-born (Manchester), New York-based filmmaker and photographer represented by RSA Films and Black Dog Films. Career began in photography with work published in The Face, Dazed & Confused, British Vogue, i-D, and the New York Times. Transitioned to…