alt-J - Pusher (Official Video) 

FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SING ALONG: If you're willing to wait for the love of your life Please wait by the line And you know dispersive prisms rainbow But my native optimism isn't broken by the light The idea of life without company fell suddenly It crashed through the ceiling on me And pinned me to the pine And layer upon layer of hope and doubt Will crush bones to oil in time Are you a pusher or are you a puller? I pull the weight towards me And I lack the zest of a lemon, looking forward Unless I have a woman pushing me A canopy of red-billed quelea Passed over the blue A five hour flock, not one dives down To tell you the truth As night falls, a quelea crawls And whispers on his last wings So abundant are we, left alone I shall be But a waited phone never rings Are you a pusher or are you a puller? I pull the weight towards me And I lack the zest of a lemon, looking forward Unless I have a woman pushing me Are you a pusher or are you a puller? We could hold hands for fifteen minutes in the sauna We could hold hands for a pool length under water I can push and pull Her If you're willing to wait for the love of your life Please wait by the line

What I especially love about this vid is it's simplicity whilst procuring such a powerful and thought provoking message...The emotions conveyed speak of loneliness and desperation..feelings that are so much a part of all of us and sometimes ignored; all because this society is so fast paced that there's no acceptance of weakness, Once you've been hurt, there's no time for 'wasteful poetry' but only to move on

Art. This is art, there's no other explanation. This gave me the chills.

The fact that this keeps me entertained for a solid four minutes is unbelievable. The works of the director and the actor did such an amazing job.

Alt-J's videos are my favourite

While, honestly, I don't entirely understand what happened, I LOVE that I was enthralled for 4 solid minutes of a single shot on one character. That doesn't happen in music videos. Ever. Good job, AltJ.

If you really pay close attention to the song, alt-J Is really just trying to say that relationships and love is all dependent on how desperate you are for love and compassion, and that when you let your mind get the best of you can pine and chase and lose your mind in desperation. The music video seems to say the same thing, it may not be about love but clearly, no matter how you look at it, the man shouting is losing himself in his desperation. If you're willing to wait for the love of your life, please wait by the line.

i can feel this guys pain without having to know what is actually happening. alt j is absolute magic

Probably my favourite alt-J song still after all these years.

I listen to this song every time when I feel terrible and so sad inside. Listening on repeat until finally I will start to cry and feel a relief

"If you're willing to wait, for the love of your life, please wait by the line"

“As night falls, a quelea crawls And whispers on his last wings, So abundant are we, Left alone I shall be, but a waited phone never rings.” That is the most lonely verse I have ever heard. I wanted this tattooed on me since hearing this song. Alt J is a band that gives a durable bandaid and then rubs some battery acid in the other wounds. Talented band! ❤️

I know I'm kinda late, but this masterpiece never gets old. I think that the men standing there are representing people. They look the same and throughout the whole video, they have the exact same expression. Also, the weather and scenery at the beginning of the video is gray and sad. The main character is a person, that has enough of the not-changing world. He is a lonely man and needs somebody to love. But he feels too old and nobody ever came to be a love for life. You can clearly see he is desperate and shouting for help. The men around him don't react, so this could be another meaning: the blindness of people. They stare at him shouting for help but don't react in any way. After he gives up, they just stare a little longer and continue their lives as nothing happened. Too much stress and routine can destroy a human and we don't see the signs that somebody needs help. We don't even know when we need it. This is my interpretation, it's a masterpiece and it's amazing how everyone can see the same piece completely different

RIP Thomas Rhazi - amazing work with this piece and may it stay as part of your legacy.

Yo that director is straight up on fleek

Did anyone else notice the woman at 2:45 ? Woman, dark skin, and head shaved but not bald - contrasting all the men in the crowd. She also stands closest to the man on the podium. Interestingly, she only appears right as the song goes, "unless I have a woman pushing me," when the man is finally pushed over the edge and commits suicide.

If you're willing to wait for the love of your life Please wait by the line And you know dispersive prisms rainbow But my native optimism isn't broken by the light The idea of life without company fell suddenly It crashed through the ceiling on me And pinned me to the pine And layer upon layer of hope and doubt Will crush bones to oil in time Are you a pusher or are you a puller? I pull the weight towards me And I lack the zest of a lemon, looking forward Unless I have a woman pushing me A canopy of red-billed quelea Passed over the blue A five hour flock, not one dives down To tell you the truth As night falls, a quelea crawls And whispers on his last wings: So abundant are we, left alone I shall be But a waited phone never rings Are you a pusher or are you a puller? I pull the weight towards me And I lack the zest of a lemon, looking forward Unless I have a woman pushing me Are you a pusher or are you a puller? We could hold hands for fifteen minutes in the sauna We could hold hands for a pool length under water I can push and pull Her If you're willing to wait for the love of your life Please wait by the line

Another incredibly moving video from Alt J.

Whiplash version: Are you are Rusher or are you a Dragger?

If anyone bothered to look up an interview and see what they said, youd see that its supposed to be one of those British Corner Speakers in the late seventies. They preached for their own reasons and beliefs, but no one cared to listen to them. So he committed suicide. "The hero does the most excessive act because he cant do anything else- shaking peoples minds in those dark times."

what a contrast between what i can hear and what i can see!

My native language it´s spanish so i will try my best explaining with the most descriptive words i know. I will talk about the song and the official video, to crystallize one idea. I think this is about a man that wants a perfect woman expecting for her through an idealized image of her. He has had signals coming from his mind that this kind of women will never arrive, but he still remains on his native optimism. He doesn´t wants a women that doesn´t match with his utopia, so he decides to live without company. After a while his heart beats him telling what he really needs, asking him if he wants to be a pusher or a puller ?. A Pusher will deny his reality, not accepting his circunstance and trying to control everything, dying against his own soul; a Puller accepts his circunstance trough his soul, giving peace to his heart. We ( i´m talking about males) need to be both kinds, to survive, sometimes we have to push , sometimes to pull. And i think that we need a woman to know when to push , when to pull, they make our world more sensitive and allows us to percibe harmony, pushing with us or pulling with us. The man of this history, guided trough his demanding mind, loss this chance and sorrounds himself of people that doesn´t cares for him ( pigs with suit ), queleas that will never dive down to tell him the truth. When he realizes, trough the whisper of his own nearly dead heart, that he has builded his history empty of love, he falls in desperation… but a waited phone never rings. This light kills his soul, so he kills himself. This is what i understood and felt trough music, lyrics and images. But poetry, art, has multiple perspectives, so you can think whatever you want.

I like the way they all watch him self destruct then they walk away like "welp that's a wrap"

Te amarei para sempre. Obrigada por me apresentar a melhor banda.🤍

Still crying to this song 6 years later

This song is so goddamn beautiful

Haunting, beautiful, peak Alt J.

This song hurts so good

Music is a more truthful language than any spoken word

Wow just wow ! Filmed as a moovie i was totally fascinated by the camera movements ! Just verry impressive and beautifull ! THIS is a real clip ! when video and music make only one and give a real experience ! Thx ! Et bien sûr filmé en France c'est la cerise sur le gâteau ;)

Very happy to be in this vidéo. Très heureux d avoir participé au tournage de cette vidéo. Les membres d alt j sont forts sympathiques au demeurant 😉

This is so relatable, I feel like this is trying to explain addiction and alcoholism to people who've never been through it. I'm in Peer Support and Recovery. It drives me insane trying to explain myself to common people and I might as well be speaking a foreign language.. 😢

definitely one of the highlights off the album!!

it depends on the door if it a push ill push if its a pull ill pull

one of the most disco elysium music videos i've ever seen, good lord this is intense and good and deeply upsetting

I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH

Procuro alguém que ame essa música tanto quanto eu

Well... Are you a pusher or are you a puller?

1:15 "Thank you all for coming. I'd like to talk to you today about something I call hair..." 1:30 "This stuff on my head, hair, is great. It keeps your head warm, and you can grow it as long as you want!" 1:55 "You should all grow hair! This bald trend is out of style and creepy!" 2:05 "Sir, grow some hair and it'll change your life!" 2:15 "Watch this! I'm going to take my coat off! And I'm not even going to be cold because the hair on my head is keeping me warm!!" 2:25 "Sir! You grow some hair right now!" 2:33 "Please! You guys need to try this! JUST LOOK AT MY LUSCIOUS LOCKS!" 2:52 "HAAAAIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!" 3:00 "Here let me give you all some of my hair to get you started" 3:10 "I just got so much hair in my mouth, but they can't relate!" 3:15 "They'll never know what it's like to run their fingers through their own hair..." 3:25 "Fuck the baldies"

This is their first music video that is not in slow motion.

How in the world does this not have even more views. 1 million may be a lot, but I've never seen a music video that has made me feel the way this one does.

there videos always live up to my expectations

This is what it's possible to heard from the man: "[...] la vérité, point de miséricorde, point de pitié [...] " / "[...] parjures[...] violence, meurtres après meurtres[...]" / "[...]on ne peut[...]" = "[...]the truth, no mercy, no mercy [...] " / "[...] parjury[...] violence, murders after murders[...]" / "[...]we can not[...]"

This song gives me a vibe where I need a hug from someone I love

So beautifully soothing. Love this song so much

"La vérité, point de miséricorde... On commet meurtre après meurtre..."

This made the skin peal off my face

Imagine if this was the only footage an alien society got to see of human kind. What would they think?

Beautiful and amazing work. Havent the foggiest idea what it means, I associated it with my fathers death and the mourning process.

eu amo essa do fundo do meu coração. clipe incrível como de costume o alt j fazer. 💖💖💖🤌

Ça ne vous fait pas quelque chose quand la chanson continue alors que les cris de l'homme s' arrêtent. Tout d'un coup, plus rien... moi ça me fend le coeur

Me emociono sempre.

Why is this the prettiest song I've ever heard??

Can't wait to see them in Argentina.

My interpretation of this song after really reading the lyrics is that this man has been hit with the fact that we are all alone in life, imagining life without anyone is terrifying and it hits him hard. In a big pool of people, we are just so small and don't matter, all of the businesses and dead end jobs surround him, and he's trying to tell them that it's all pointless. As he was yelling about murder, it leads to nothing, yet again pointless. We can't do anything.

como me encanta esta banda

It's not an alt j video if no one dies.

This song is evidence that good, artful, and sophisticated music still exists and is gaining popularity again. Where have these guys been all these years?

This is honestly one of my all time favourite songs these guys have ever wrote...

listening to alt j with a head full of acid is one of the most beautiful experiences i have ever had

We are either pushers or pullers in one relationship or another. This changes as time passes too. Loss of love and loneliness are amplified when we realize this and dwell in the past. Its always hard to move on because we are emotional beings.

"I lack the zest of a lemon looking forward, unless I have a woman pushing me" that line is in my blood.

First verse, I thought it was Thom Yorke from Radiohead. Great song. Will be listening to more from this band. Love it!

if you're willing to wait for the love of your life please wait by the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine

Absolutely need to see them live

The photography in here is just perfection!

I'm surprised 'Pusher' got a music video because it wasn't a single but I'm so glad because it's easily one of my favourites off their new album! Great music video to whoever made this by the way, so cold and beautiful - the way it starts really hooked my attention.

The second the video started I was like “oh shit this is gunna be a slap”

This song is so good it made me cry

OMFG thank you for existing... really you have no idea how much the world needs such real music that actually expresses real human feelings... i love each one of your songs separetely but this one hides so much sensitivity, it moves me deeply an makes me shiver... thank you. keep making pure art, the world needs it. :)

Just a powerful and beautiful clip. I haven't see a clip as original as this

YES! Back to the amazing, interesting, intricate, and captivating videos! I was wondered after the Left Hand Free video, but like always, Alt-J hits another home run! These videos are weird, gorgeous, haunting, and intriguing all at the same time, and I love it! They can play at your emotions and hold them so well! When I watch an Alt-J video, time stands still for it alone. Can't wait for the next one!

Makes me feel as if I were driving in New Scotland, as snow and hail pour down from the heavens.

What an awesome song.

East or West.....Alt-J is the best❤❤

Alt-j is a magicians band!

someone i love who doesn't love me back brought me here

its like a scene from a movie and looks like a reallll good movie lol

I just absolutely love how he sings "line", undescribeable.

their Videos are always incredibly well done... Just had to be said once

It sounds like the preacher is quoting Nietzche's "God is dead and we killed him" speech.

I can't wait to see you in Iowa!!!!!!! Thank you for coming

So far, alt j sure did have great songs and videos. More to come!

my heart skipped a beat at the end.. WOW

WHY DOES I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THIS BAND BEFORE?? WHERE HAVE I BEEN?

i love such songs that have a deeper meaning than what we all assume

This video is so heartbreaking but mesmerizing

Well ... That was brutal.

Amazing, this so deep, perfectly simple, clean, not hipster at all, mean something, absolutely not mainstream stuff, just unique, just alt-J... and duuuude I need that they come to Mexico, really.

1:39 dead body in the car.

I think it says that we are in an age where it is so difficult to convey a message to another person, that speaker gives up and can not do anything to change the minds of those people, then in an act of extreme desperation commits suicide.

this will forever be one of my favourites

One of their best songs!

this music video gave me a whole new meaning to this song.

WHY its so amazing!? Thank you for exist!

ALT j speaks to my soul

woah.. for something so simple it sure is powerful.

Wonderful! I cannot wait to see your show in Brasil!!!!

This looks like the same place Fitzpleasure was filmed, anyone else agree?

not even sure how to explain how perfect this video is. were it set to any other song i would hate it, but as i said, perfect.