Starsailor - Four To The Floor

What this video is

Released in early 2004 as the third single from Starsailor's second album Silence Is Easy (2003, EMI), 'Four to the Floor' arrived at the height of the post-Britpop orchestral indie wave, contemporaneous with acts like Coldplay, Muse, and Doves. The single was a significant international commercial success, reaching number one in France and Wallonia and number five in Australia, making Starsailor one of the few…

Why it matters

A key artefact of British chamber pop and post-Britpop's early-2000s orchestral turn, the video fuses indie rock performance conventions with classical staging. The disappearing-orchestra device is a rare conceptual flourish within the genre's predominantly realist visual vocabulary, marking an…

The director

Swedish director born February 6, 1973, Stockholm. Background in the Swedish alternative music scene; studied film theory at Stockholm University and practical filmmaking at Stockholm Film School. Built early career directing high-profile music videos before…