If, as I’d done with my list of the Top 10 EPs of 2011, I’d given last year’s LPs similar consideration, Vanbot‘s self-titled debut definitely would have been near the top. The Swedish synthpop newcomer would likely have scored the number two slot behind Adele’s 21. As it is, first single “Lost Without You” took top honors as the favorite tune in my otherwise unranked list of the Top 100 Tracks of 2011, while Bremen’s remix of album track “Bitter Is The Sweetest Part” was named one of the Top Remixes of 2011.

Today, Vanbot premiered a music video for “Numb,” a song that she says “woke me up in the middle of the night and made me find that chorus. I quickly had to record it on my cell half asleep.” The new clip, lensed last June, takes its cue from the album’s cover art, designed by Samuel Axelsson. From blank canvas to Axelsson’s fully realized vision, we watch his painting take shape, while separately, Vanbot herself is done up in makeup to match.

Impressive, though the best part of the music video comes in the bridge, which shows Vanbot aglow from armfuls of neon glow-stick bracelets. I can’t help it, I’m an ’80s kid:

Purchase Vanbot – “Numb” via iTunes, Amazon MP3.