Blackfield's Best Videos on YouTube
The Blackfield V album gave Kscope one of its most visually and sonically cohesive releases. Four of its tracks earned official video treatments, each capturing a distinct mood. Here are the ones worth your time.
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The Videos
- A Drop in the Ocean — The album's emotional centrepiece. Melancholy and cinematic, it carries the hushed atmosphere of a silent film, with Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen at their most restrained and affecting.
- Jackal — The outlier: bluesy, gritty, built around a fuzz-drenched guitar hook. Interlocking minor and major chord shifts give it an uneasy tension that offsets the album's softer passages.
- How Was Your Ride? — Begins as progressive rock and gradually opens into something warmer and more accessible. It pulls you toward the melodic core of Blackfield V and keeps you there.
- From 44 to 48 — Written solely by Wilson, and the album's most personal close. Rich, full, and unhurried, it reflects on ageing and relinquished dreams, with Geffen and Tomer Z on drums lending it a quiet weight. A graceful final word.
All four videos are drawn from Blackfield V — making it one of the band's most thoroughly documented albums on film.
"From 44 to 48 puts a perfect bow on the album's running thread — warm, sophisticated, and utterly unhurried."
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Steven Wilson
English musician (born 1967)
Steven John Wilson is an English musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Aviv Geffen
Israeli musician (born 1973)
Aviv Geffen is an Israeli rock musician, singer-songwriter, music producer and author.
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