Yves Tumor - Noid

What this video is

Released January 31, 2019, 'Noid' by Yves Tumor emerged as a visceral audio-visual statement during a period of acute national reckoning with police violence against Black Americans. The song, first released as a single in July 2018 from the critically acclaimed Warp Records album 'Safe in the Hands of Love,' addressed PTSD, police brutality, and the alienating reality of African-American life. The music video…

Why it matters

A landmark in late-2010s experimental art-pop, 'Noid' signals the collapse of boundaries between underground noise, neo-psychedelia, and socially conscious Black American music. Tumor's work on 'Safe in the Hands of Love' placed them alongside Arca and SOPHIE at what Resident Advisor called 'the…

The director

Andreas Brauning is a Chilean filmmaker, artist and writer living in Venice Beach. His directorial work includes the music video for Yves Tumor's 'Noid' (2019) and he is credited as executive producer on the short film Pretext (2017), per IMDB and MAFF…