Plaid - 35 Summers

What this video is

Released in 2011 as the lead single and video from Plaid's album Scintilli, '35 Summers' marked the duo's return to full studio albums after years devoted to film scoring and audiovisual projects. Ed Handley and Andy Turner — founding figures of the Warp Records IDM ecosystem and former members of The Black Dog — had been central to the Artificial Intelligence movement of the early-to-mid 1990s. By 2011, a renewed…

Why it matters

Plaid occupy a canonical position in the IDM / intelligent electronic music lineage on Warp Records. '35 Summers' represents a mature statement of their aesthetic — melodically rich, rhythmically intricate, emotionally evocative — delivered with a visual counterpart that refuses conventional…

The director

Richie Burridge is a UK-based designer and filmmaker who maintained a long collaborative relationship with Plaid, contributing to their visual artwork across multiple releases. The '35 Summers' video represented his first live-action music video direction,…