Videos TLOBF Sessions

Rökkurró – Sjónarspil (The Line of Best Fit Session)

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What happens when you take a band who are heavily reliant on swooping strings and studio atmospherics to create their multi-textured music and leave them with just two acoustic guitars on a jetty in the middle of London’s Embankment? This….

Cloud Nothings – I Forget You All The Time (The Line of Best Fit Session)

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Possessed of a voice and songwriting talent that belies the fact he’s barely out of his teens, Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi channels Robert Pollard and Alex Chilton through the analogue socket of a first generation cassette deck while firmly wearing heart-on-sleeve.

Watch Lykke Li perform I Follow Rivers for Best Fit

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The Last Tuesday Society: A twisted cave of beautifully fucked-up Victoriana, macabre antiques and, to be frank, the stuff of nightmares, it was here we took Lykke for a unique performance of latest single ‘I Follow Rivers’. And she gave us her heart and soul: a session that is, by turns, mesmerising, intense and emotionally wrought.

Those Dancing Days – I’ll Be Yours (The Line of Best Fit Session)

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Performing a stripped back version of their forthcoming new single ‘I’ll Be Yours’, the girls revealed a more sensitive side than that of their usual high jinx nature. Delicate and intimate, the shamelessly romantic core of the song shines effortlessly with Linnea Jönsson’s vocals breaking the hearts of all that witnessed this extremely special performance.

Napoleon IIIrd – The Unknown Unknown (The Line of Best Fit Session)

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We shot this film during Napoleon IIIrd’s triumphant performance at Hoxton Hall last month. Usually one to perform completely solo, using backing tapes, loops and a mass of pedals to re-create the sounds on record – here, Mabbett employs talent from the Brainlove Records fraternity including members of Internet Forever, Keyboard Choir, A Scholar and A Physician and Stairs To Korea. The results: jaw dropping.