Woodkid: The Golden Age - Woodkid has been teasing us; you, me, and the world in general. Prior to his March 18 th full album release, The Golden Age , Woodkid (Yoann Lemoine) put out one EP per year in 2011 and 2012, and three singles in the span of three years. Cruel and unusual punishment when the first of those singles was the song ‘Iron’, which leads my Top 10 Favorite Songs list…possibly of all time. Woodkid also garnered attention with his fantastic music videos. Having done short music [...]
We know Yoann Lemoine as the artistic videographer that among other things put Lana Del Rey between two tigers in a pristine palace, capturing the soulful majesty of Del Rey ’s torch song, " Born To Die ." His videos bear his mark, encapsulating emotion and serving up a version that is easily ingested and relatable, whether it’s the carefree rapture of Katy Perry ’s “ Teenage Dream ,” the heartfelt and pained longing of Taylor Swift [...]
In a strikingly austere modernist theatre in the Mitte district of Berlin, Yoann Lemoine stands triumphant onstage, arms outstretched messianicaly, e gging on the adulations of a mid-week crowd. There's near-hysteria in the auditorium for the man better known as Woodkid and it's not difficult to see why. Lemoine has earned acclaim and gongs (including a Cannes Lion) for his work with the likes of Lana Del Rey , Drake , Katy Perry and Taylor Swift but tonight finds the hirsute Frenchman fully transformed into a musical [...]
Woodkid has had quite an eventful 2011/2012, but one thing he hasn't done that we've all been waiting for is release a full-length album. He dropped his video for "Run Boy Run" , released his Iron EP, directed videos for Drake and Rihanna , toured, played with Lana Del Rey , and he probably even swam with the dolphins and opened up a homeless shelter, or something equally as [...]
It's been a while in coming, but it's time: world, meet Deptford Goth . It's quite possible you've already met him, since we posted the video for his stunning "Life After Defo" , but let this be a more formal introduction. We might as well roll out the red carpet for it too, because he's hotly tipped for a lot of success (we don't call them Ones To Watch for nothing, you know?). Whatever success comes to this 28-year-old blue-eyed former teacher's assistant [...]
It's been more than a year since Yoann Lemoine , known to the rest of the world as Woodkid , released one of the most stunning videos of the last decade for "Iron" . Since then he's gone on to direct videos for Lana Del Rey , Rihanna , and Drake , whilst also dropping a sexy marbled vinyl for the "Iron" EP and completing work on his debut album. Today he released his second EP [...]
Vídeo dirigido pelo célebre Yoann Lemoine (Woodkid).
Watch the video for "Take Care" the title track duet featuring Rihanna from Drake 's latest album. On Friday night Drake chose to release two new videos from his excellent "Take Care" album. First off was his title track duet with Rihanna , produced by Jamie xx reworking one of his Gil Scott-Heron remixes. Directed by Yoann Lemoine [...]
Perhaps because of some unexplained hatred for music bloggers, Drake picked Friday night to release two videos for singles from Take Care , Stereogum's second-favorite album of 2011 . The album's Rihanna duet title track is an emotively clubby Jamie xx-produced track, a reworking of one of his Gil Scott-Heron remixes, and its video is a sparse, arty affair. Director Yoann Lemoine (otherwise known as Woodkid) intersperses shots of Drake and Rihanna in what looks like an endless hug with slow-motion footage of blue jays, wild yaks, snow-capped mountains, forests on fire, [...]
Drake's been doing everything on Take Care very artfully (except, debatably, the album artwork). That trend does not, in any way, slow down here. He taps in Yoann Lemoine to direct the video for the eponymous single and it's clear that this video is all Woodkid everything, and equally clear that Drake does an amazing job of picking his collaborators. Between this, the " Born To Die " video and his own visuals for his own song " Iron ," Lemoine has been creating an aesthetic that's entirely his own. He's generating imagery that's evoking grandeur from [...]
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