Kevin Bronson on December 3rd, 2020

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Rounding up four notable new videos that arrived this week, from Greg Dulli, Phoebe Bridgers, Big Black Delta and Bodies of Water …

GREG DULLI, “Lockless”

Director Bailey Smith explores the city of New Orleans in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown in the video for “Lockless,” from Dulli’s striking solo album “Random Desire.” “I was in New Orleans during the curfew period after Katrina and would come out into the Quarter about an hour before it lifted, thinking, ‘It’s like the Twilight Zone,’” Dulli says. “When this original lockdown occurred, I immediately recalled that moment in time and wanted to document it. Like a lot of cities around the world, the absence of people in normally bustling places is very jarring and ghostly. The song itself suggests a loneliness and I felt the marriage between the song and these images was too perfect not to explore.” In other news, Dulli revealed he is working on a new Afghan Whigs album.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS, “Savior Complex”

The Year of Phoebe continues, now including British actress-producer Phoebe Waller Bridge, who directs the video for this song from the album “Punisher.” It stars Emmy-nominated Irish actor Paul Mescal. Here’s some background on how the collaboration happened. (It was released to Facebook.)

BIG BLACK DELTA, “Air Conditioned Dork”

As with “Vessel” and video-of-the-year contender “Summoner,” Big Black Delta’s Jonathan Bates and filmmaker Warren Kommers collaborate again on “Air Conditioned Dork.” Bates shares some background: “A couple of records ago, a writer had written some pretty nasty things about me and my music. I had never met the gentleman, but he went after my looks, dress, music, etc., enough to where it felt personal. Being the alcoholic mess that I was, I really let it hurt me in unnecessary ways. I didn’t have the understanding at the time to see that the embarrassment and pain that had caused was not necessary. So I imagined this sub floor of Dante’s Hell where you just had these air conditioned dorks floating around saying spiteful things like if Terry Gilliam directed ‘Dune.’ So you have this guy working through some chords on a piano trying to write a song, and in come these floating critics, singing to you like a Greek chorus.”

Kommers adds: “The world doesn’t need to hear about the feels from two white dudes right now. However, somewhere within that self-deprecating comment is what this video is about. Of all the songs on ‘4’ … it was ‘Air Conditioned Dork’ that I connected with the most. For my entire life, I’ve been plagued by being my own worst critic, often to a point of complete creative and depressive [paralysis], where works are completely abandoned. I’m betting that inner conflict is more universal than just our sad asses?”

BODIES OF WATER, “I Knew Your Brother”

Who wouldn’t like a dancing ostrich? The follow-up to “Every Little Bird,” “I Knew Your Brother” will appear on Bodies of Water’s first album since 2017, “Is This What It’s Like” (out in February).