Labrinth Premieres Video For New Single "Last Time" [Video Review]

Labrinth lives out his childhood dreams in the video for his new single "Last Time" that premiered on Vevo this morning. The intro slate of the video tells viewers that the video is "based on a true story" and starts out with a young Labrinth spinning a globe and dreaming of space travel.

Seconds later, a green alien appears in his bedroom to take him by the hand to jump through a time warp and enter fantastical, intergalactic universe that provides viewers a glimpse into Labrinth's highly-imaginative world  Together they walk down a rainbow-colored brick road from scene to scene to discover lush green hills filled with martian colonies, choreographed aliens and elephants bouncing up and down trampolines (plus tastefully placed Reebok branding).

Much like Labrinth's music, the video is a perfectly synthesized version of his reality in which Labrinth battles the elements armed with hard-hitting electro beats, big melodic chords, punchy strings and his fitting use of a classic vocoder to give his soulful vocals a bit of that extra oomph. Even though Labrinth is about to be one of the biggest stars in the world, he is still a total musical geek at heart with a penchant for sci-fi and this video is proof of that. 

The London artist likes to describe his new "Last Time" as a "an electronic sci-fi record." Labrinth tells Pyro Magazine, "It's kind of a bit electro housy and very musical. When you listen deeper into the music you can hear that because there are a lot of layers on the track ( . . .) I remember thinking 'I want to try something different, I want to kind of branch out a bit' I looked at it as myself going around the world and experimenting all different flavours and coming out of my little box to see whats out there, that's when I made 'Last Time.'"

"Last Time" is taken from Labrinth's forthcoming debut record "Electronic Earth," which includes a duet with Emeli Sande on "Beneath Your Beautiful" that he co-wrote with Mike Posner. Labrinth describes the album as "just loads of different mixes of energy there we’ve got some old school flavours, new school flavours." "Electronic Earth" will be out in the U.K. on March 19.