11 Best Music Videos of 2013 (So Far)

Director: Daniels

For Passion Pit’s Gossamer track “Cry Like A Ghost,” directing team Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known collectively as DANIELS, went the route of spectral and mysterious. The clip begins with a distraught young woman, twisting in the dark, crying by herself as she runs through the woods. The video jerks through time, showing the girl drinking in a bar and flashing back on past romances and seemingly constantly on the brink of tragedy — all the while incorporating dance steps worthy of a Selena Gomez song or a Step Up dance routine. The result is simultaneously ominous and uplifting and eminently watchable.