The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 1 November

JAMES BLAKE ON MERCURY PRIZE WIN: 'I FEEL WEIRD AND CONFUSED'
James Blake took home the Mercury Music Prize for 2013 for his album Overgrown. He beat albums from legends like David Bowie, huge mainstream artists like Arctic Monkeys and Foals, and chart bait like Disclosure and Jake Bugg. The increasingly conservative trend in the nominations for the prize is undercut by a tendency to include at least one or two albums from breakthrough artists or more avant garde bands, as evidenced this year by the inclusion of albums by Jon Hopkins and Savages.

In that sense, Blake's win is not all that surprising – his music occupies a middle ground between the more abstract electronica of Hopkins and the mainstream fare of Arctic Monkeys et al. Blake's comments on the award reflect his own ambivalence about the prize: "I feel weird and confused," he said at a press conference. "But wonderful. It's a moment you don't expect to happen to you. In fact you might even bet against it if you're British. This is the first thing I've ever won apart from a tennis trophy when I was 12. And I hold them in equal esteem. I'll be putting them on the shelf next to each other."

In an ironic twist, presenter Lauren Laverne fluffed her lines when welcoming Blake to the stage, introducing him instead as James Blunt. Laverne later tweeted a joking response to her gaffe: "Never felt better than I do tonight about artists who have fractionally dissimilar fore and surnames. #MercuryPrize #Irony...Three letters...Thanks for the tweets of support, guys. You're beautiful. OH GOD IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN." 

NEW MUSIC: MOGWAI, WARPAINT, WILEY, GRIZZLY BEAR, EROL ALKAN, JEREMIAH JAE, ACTION BRONSON 
Mogwai announced their new album this week – Rave Tapes will be out 20 January, but until then, the band are offering the track Remurdered for free download. They play Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on 28 January, and Manchester's Bridgewater Hall the day before (27 January), before embarking on a European tour.    

Warpaint's new self-titled album will also be out on 20 January – they have unveiled the first track from the release, Love Is To Die, this week. The album is produced by Nine Inch Nails veteran Flood with some assistance on a few tracks from Nigel Godrich of Atoms For Peace. 

Wiley continues his run of singles on Big Dada with Born In The Cold, featuring guest vocals from Andreena Mill. It's a more laidback cut than he's offered of late, with some tight rhymes and lazy, unwinding synths. 

Grizzly Bear have a new track, taken from the Shields Up remixes and B-sides packages announced last month, and due out on 12 November. It's another offcut from Shields Up, entitled Listen and Wait. 

Erol Alkan has been a mainstay of clubland for so long that it's hard to believe that Illumination will be his debut EP – it's dropping on 2 December via his own Phantasy label. He play's Manchester's The Warehouse Project on 8 November with Phantasy labelmates Daniel Avery and Connan Mockasin.

Brainfeeder alumnus Jeremiah Jae this week announced a new series of 7" release for Warp, under the title Dirty Collections. Warp are offering the first track from the series, Fun, as a free download. Dirty Collections Vol. 1 is out on 12 November. 

Finally, rap heavyweight Action Bronson and producer Party Supplies have a new mixtape out – Blue Chips 2 is the follow-up to their first collaboration, and includes guest verses from Mac Miller and Ab-Soul amongst others. Grab the mixtape here – watch a teaser for the release below.

NEW VIDEOS: SAVAGES, JULIA HOLTER, DAVID BOWIE, MGMT, DIRTY PROJECTORS, WASHED OUT, BAIO, GUIDO
They may have missed out on the Mercury, but Savages don't really seem like the kind of band who would give much of a fuck. Here's the video for Marshal Dear, inspired by seminal science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five.  

This month's cover star from both our editions, Julia Holter has a new video out – it features the Loud City Song artist in an abandoned theatre watching some strange goings-on. 

David Bowie's new video cost just £8. It features puppets from the singer's collection (creepy). The track is a remix of Love Is Lost by LCD Soundsystem frontman, DFA founder and the mastermind behind Arcade Fire's Reflektor, James Murphy.

The new video from MGMT is for Alien Days, a track which premiered online a while back. They are obviously aiming for 'psychedelic' but a bit like Bowie, they've ended up at 'scary.' We dare you not to shudder at the grey alien dancing in a black basque.

The new Dirty Projectors video features some breathtaking scenery shot in the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. It's for the track Impregnable Question, taken from the excellent Swing Lo Magellan. 

Washed Out's All I Know is one of the standout tracks from Paracosm. Now it gets a lo-fi video exploring the mercurial friendship of two young men on a road trip. 

Chris Baio of Vampire Weekend has a house music side-project – Baio has just unveiled the first video from Mira, his new EP. 

And finally, a video from post-dubstep producer Guido, featuring singer Emma-Lou. It's taken from the album Moods of Future Joy, out 4 November.

MOVIE TIME WITH ODD FUTURE & JAMES MURPHY
Both horror-rap collective Odd Future and LCD Soundsystem / DFA Records head honcho James Murphy dropped their debut filmmaking projects online this week, timing them to coincide with Halloween. Murphy's film Little Duck is the tale of a Japanese emigré returning to his country after years abroad living in New York, and was overseen by veteran director Ron Howard. Watch it in full here. Here's a behind-the-scenes clip about the making of the film.

Odd Future's film aims more directly for the jugular, like a fucked-up hip-hop episode of Scooby Doo, featuring Tyler, Earl Sweatshirt and various other OF alums cavorting around a haunted hotel, or as the YouTube description has it: "A Little Girl Dies By The Stairs In A Hotel And Detective Ray And Tony Has To Find Out Who Did It Before Its Too Late.. Tyler, Jasper, Lionel, Taco And Earl Thought Of This At 4 In The Morning Knowing It Would Be One Of The Greatest Movies Of All Time." Yeah... well.

TRAILERS: X-MEN - DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, THE PUNK SINGER
Finally, a couple of trailers for upcoming movies – there's Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise with X-Men: Days of Future Past, which seeks to join the casts of the original movies with their First Class past selves, by going to the future. Confused yet? Singer has promised a darker tone for this outing – welcome news for those who found X-Men: First Class a bit Buffy-esque.

Then there's The Punk Singer, a biopic about outspoken musician and feminist Kathleen Hanna, examining her years as frontwoman of Bikini Kill, the Riot Grrl movement, and her retirement from public life in 2005.