Welcome to a very Gaspar Noé type of nightmare for The Weeknd's collaboration with pioneering electronic musician and producer Giorgio Moroder.

This is no Noé-influenced piece either, but the unmistakeable work of the man himself, a combination of eye-bleeding visual assault and unsettling, disorientating strangeness. An elderly man staggers through a deserted virtual city under a sky of Northern Lights gone haywire, in which the giant sculpted heads of the two artists revolve.

In Abel Tesfaye's long and distinguished track record of music videos this has to be the most uncompromising yet in terms of the visual aesthetic. Never has a 'flashing lights' warning at the start of a video been more justified. Top marks for giving the fanbase something outside their comfort zone.