Michel Gondry’s Surreal New Music Video For Metronomy

For the first time since Bjork’s ‘Crystalline’ in 2011, the dream-like, mind-bendy director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science Of Sleep and last year’s Mood Indigo has released a music video — this time for the UK’s Metronomy.

The Michel Gondry clip for ‘Love Letters’ is just about as meta and inventive as you’d expect. You’re watching a live audience watch Metronomy, who are playing inside a cut-out hexagonal box, inside your YouTube, and inside your computer — with each painted window into their stage representing a different scene: a science lab, a busy street, a concert hall, a forest, a park-side serenade, and another computer (help, my brain!).

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That’s as good enough a reason as we need to rewatch some other classic Gondry clips.

Like Bjork’s ‘Army Of Me’

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The White Stripes’ ‘Fell In Love With A Girl’

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Radiohead’s ‘Knives Out’

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Kylie Minogue’s ‘Come Into My World’

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And, of course, this guy: