Kevin Bronson on May 14th, 2009

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Looks like a video to me, anyway, but Tori Amos is calling this a “visualette.” The deluxe edition of Amos’ new album, “Abnormally Attracted to Sin” (due Tuesday), has a DVD of visualettes videos that, according to the press release, are “interlocking episodic films bring to life the narrative arc of the album.” This episode is for the song “Fire to Your Plain.” Amos’ tour brings her to the Greek Theatre on July 17. And thus ends my blurbette.

The U.K.’s James Yuill is a bit of a mad scientist, brewing up electro-pop that might cause arrhythmia in genteel listeners. His debut album “Turning Down Water for Air” is out May 26; “No Pins Allowed,” which gets herky-jerky treatment is this video, is already out digitally. Yuill plays the Glass House in Pomona (supporting M83) on May 20, then visits the Troubadour with School of Seven Bells and Black Moth Super Rainbow on May 29.

‣ Also: It’s not embeddable, but the new short film for Bob Dylan’s “Beyond Here Lies Nothin'” (off his new album “Together Through Life”) premiered Tuesday on IFC. Directed by Nash Edgerton, it stars Joel Stoffer and Amanda Aardsma. Wicked good. Player only, or check out the whole page.