Pitchfork

We were pretty big fans of Vitalic's "Poney Pt. 1" video last year, which took the art of extreme slow-motion to new heights with shots of jumping, panting, shaking dogs of all breeds. The result was both a physics lesson and cute overload. Of course, we didn't stop to think about how applying the same effect to different species might have the opposite effect.

The video for Warp Records artist Clark's latest single, "Ted", directed by 1stAveMachine, is equally mesmerizing but for totally different reasons: Call us specist, but watching these alien-like insects flare and retract their body parts is just revolting, their steel-plated exoskeletons creepily fluid and mechanical at the same time. Naturally, their movements are edited to keep time with "Ted"s own pulsing beat, and yup, it fits: here are doughy, soft, human hands eliciting synthetic sounds from machines, while robotic, mech-like insects writhe and slither.