A Perfect Circle Share “Starless” Video Drawn From the Song’s London Live Debut

A Perfect Circle have released a video for “Starless.” The clip is assembled from footage of the song’s live debut in London, which means the band is circulating a performance it has already given rather than staging a new one for the camera.

That choice reflects how this band tends to operate. A Perfect Circle, led by Maynard James Keenan and guitarist Billy Howerdel, has moved slowly across its existence, with long stretches of quiet between records and a live show that carries much of the group’s weight. New material has often reached audiences onstage before it reached them anywhere else, and the London footage preserves that order instead of tidying it up.

The video leans on performance rather than concept. What it documents is a specific night, a room, and a song being played for people hearing it for the first time. For a band whose recorded output is deliberately sparse, that is a sensible use of the format: less a marketing object than a record of the moment the song stopped being private.