Each week, FRINGE MUSIC FIX culls the latest music video releases, carefully selecting the most bizarre, provocative, and remarkable videos from across the world.

Sit back, relax, and open your mind’s eye; things are about to get interesting. The following are our selections for the week ending April 13th, 2014.

Just in time for the premiere of the 4th season of HBO’s most popular series, Polish electronic pop songstress Kari and directors Kasia Garstka and Tomek Nied?wied? have released a music video inspired by Game Of Thrones for "The Winter Is Back." It’s a dark and beautiful video that should appeal to fans of the visual aspects of the fantasy series.

Back in high school I experimented with many different subcultures. The first being my goth/industrial period, in which I unfortunately wound up looking more like the eldest Hanson brother, Isaac, than I did the Trent Reznor and cEvin Key figures I idolized. My second experimentation was with skateboarding. While I was finally able to nail down the notorious “ollie,” which I’m told is by far the easiest trick to learn, my true expertise lay in watching skateboarding videos. I could watch a skate video like nobody’s business.

Former professional skater, Laban Pheidias, has done an exceptional job of tying both of my main adolescent phases together for his music video for the melancholic all-girl post-rock group, Warpaint’s, double feature, “Disco//Very - Keep It Healthy”. The first half of the video sees Warpaint dancing and performing in a surprisingly lighthearted manner dressed in stylish and bright clothes. This proves to be an amusing contrast to their dark and gloomy sound. As the sun sets, the band finds a stoop, and we are treated to some exceptional skateboarding from Justin Eldridge, Patrick Melcher, Kris Markovich, Rob Smith, and Victor Zanoni. It’s a surprisingly effective and simple video that works best because it’s not at all what we’d expect from the a band that’s normally much more somber.

Will Joines directs the music video for Canadian electronic artist TRUST, which clearly draws its influence from the late night cult sci-fi of the 80s and 90s. The video is full of mind-bending imagery that features a beautiful girl seemingly possessed by supernatural elements. The album art from the band’s Joyland is also tied into the series of visuals. “Capitol” is thus far one of the boldest and most memorable visuals for TRUST, and definitely the strongest music video effort created to promote their latest album.

Director NORTON and a ghostly Megan James of Purity Ring escort us on a visceral journey into Danny Brown’s troubled past via time travel in the candid music video for “25 Bucks.” As Danny ventures through an old house we imagine might be similar to the one he grew up in, we lay eyes on frozen scenes of financial burden, his mother’s struggles as sole provider for her family, as well as Brown’s own involvement in drugs. The video’s stylish visual effects and exceptional technical merits only further ensure the video is as technically relevant as it is biographical.

The Allie Avital Tsypin directed music video for Ejecta’s “Eleanor Lye” has been described as an “emotional rebirth”. Much like the album cover for Ejecta’s “Dominae”, the intense visual features Ejecta frontwoman, Leanne Macomber, completely nude. Despite how explicit the nudity is, it’s done in a very tasteful and artistic way. Macomb gives a chilling performances as a person undergoing changes on every level. It’s a stunning, detailed, and beautifully shot video that completely avoids the pitfalls of gimmickry with a concept that normally would serve that very purpose.

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