I think it’s silly season on Youtube for record companies this week. There’s Lightspeed Champion dressed as Elvis doing “Devil In Disguise” (pictured), there’s another video for the same song as was posted a few months ago from Maps, Adam Green’s gone video mental (third in a week), and Julian Casablancas’ video for “The 11th Dimension” features daft headgear but – fairly importantly, I reckon – no actual sound. Er… enjoy?

Is it over yet? Can we now stop talking about lists, top tens, Santa, new year’s resolutions and all the other guff that’s been going on elsewhere over the last fortnight? I did the sensible thing and left the country, so am blissfully ignorant of anything that’s happened recently. I’ve no idea what your album of 2009 was, and I also don’t care – new stuff beckons. Today, that comes in the slightly jerky shape of these recent videos released into the wild by Adam Green, Blood Red Shoes, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (pictured) and Tindersticks. Oh, and a video re-posted by SXSW to promote our previous Album Of The Week-ers Turbo Fruits upcoming Austin show that just deserves mentioning because… well, just because I feel like it.

Bit of a dull week for music video, that. Sure, there was new bits and pieces, but it’s all a bit major label if you know what I mean. Leave it to art-jokers Flaming Lips and Japanther to come up with something well worth the eyeballs though. And, honestly, I’m not being ironic, Rick Parfitt & Rolf Harris‘ video for Christmas In The Sun is awe-inspiringly funny.

Either I’m not looking hard enough or there’s really not been a huge amount of new videos out this last week. I know that Blur trailer‘s causing some excitement… and Hot Chip have put up a “video” for the new single, although the video’s just a screen full of static and it’s called a ‘listening post’ and not a video, which is just fucking wasting bandwidth if you ask me. Still, there’s new stuff from Twilight Sad, and Delphic as well as a cracking new Phoenix video by the La Blogotheque geniuses, which goes some way to making up for it. Oh, and some scaffy chancers called Off The Beaten Tracks have put up the video for the recent Scott from Frightened Rabbit / Meursault collaboration, too.

There’s been a fair few ‘major’ videos out there this week – tons from Children In Need, Paramore, Major Lazer etc – but not so much on the fringes – however, new visuals from Simian Mobile Disco and tUnE-yArDs as well as a bit of art from some of Japanther (pictured) goes some way to making up for the quiet stretch.

Nosing around Youtube this last week there’s been a few new videos of note popping up – in particular, Eels’ latest, ‘Little Bird’. Taken from the new LP End Times (due in Jan, following hot on the heels of this year’s El Hombre Loco), it’s a glorious track of quiet and desparate sadness. The video’s a one-shot affair of E sitting on his porch – I have never wanted a porch so badly in my entire life.