Not recent for me, but I adore this music video. Never fails to pick up my spirits, so I do watch it often enough when I'm down.
That definitely took some time to make!
I prefer music videos to either a)have a story, or b)be musically abstract (like this one). I'm not too keen on videos featuring the band playing or walking around darkened city streets in the fog lip-syncing to their lyrics (okay, maybe I do a little bit) but I'd rather watch the former.
I'm in the laser light show business so I can really appreciate when images complement the music (a la Disney's Fantasia). The most perfect example of this (for me) is Autechre's "Gantz Graf":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL8J974KjX0