The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

In recent times, the visual has come to accompany many modern works of music. The advent of MTV has sullied works of sonic art in the opinions of many critics of a cynical bent. Yet in many cases when tasteful elements are present in both, both are fit to stand apart from one another.
The video for this track is very beautiful, and its Kubrickesque parts do not diminish the overall work even for its flattery through imitation. The wafer factory recalls the space station scene from 2001. The imagery of bodies moving under conditions of weightlessness and dressed in white on a white background while surrounded by the kinetic motion of automations has been imitated to a lesser degree in videos like Lenny Kravitz's "Believe," but in this case it is a proper evocation of classic cinema.
The track itself is delicate and ethereal. College radio may have run it into the ground by now but I still wouldn't change the station if it came on.