Hundred Waters - Out Alee

Hundred Waters has a video that matches both the ambition and the immersive quality of its music. “Out Alee,” directed by filmmaker Michael Langan, is as gorgeous as a glossy magazine spread — but it’s also the farthest thing from safe or predictable. (The group has worked with Langan before: he was the visionary behind the surreal clip for “Cavity,” another intoxicating track from Moon.) Strangeness radiates from every frame in the video: we’re shown hands on a ouija board planchette, blurred maps, upside-down seas, floating bodies, dancers on a distant island in too-bright sunlight. Frontwoman Nicole Miglis sits, still and barefoot in a blue dress, on a sofa in a house where all pieces of furniture are covered in white sheets. Images tease and provoke; scenes hang, unresolved, like tantalizing open questions. This is a clip that calls the viewer back, again and again, to discover something new.