The video for Pompeii by Bastille (directed by Jesse John Jenkins) is essentially a horror story in which Daniel Smith flees (or rather attempts to flee) from a contagion that reduces young people to a state of blank-eyed vacuity.
As a horror story it is perhaps fitting that the opening sequence shows Dan Smith perched atop a colossal piece of dehumanising modernist-brutalist architecture - the city is Los Angeles, but it could be Coventry, or Stevenage, or the Atlantic Wall.
http://isaacbauman.com/Bastille-Pompeii
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