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Videos, videos, a pocketful of videos. There's a whole world of low-budget indie rock song-commercials to check today. Namely: Franz Ferdinand's "Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On", Cat Power's "Lived in Bars", Death From Above 1979 electro project MSTRKRFT's "Work on You", and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness' "According to Plan". Ready for this? POW:

Franz Ferdinand: "Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On"

Though full of eye-pleasing animation, the most welcome aspect of the "Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On" video is the thrilling absence of Franz frontman Alex Kapranos' lurid man-dancing. It features the title character Eleanor (in this case, a pretty hackish representation of Fiery Furnaces singer and Kapranos' GF Eleanor Friedberger) running and jumping across various watercolored landscapes. So basically, it's like watching someone play a video game.

Cat Power: "Lived in Bars"

Chan Marshall's happy these days. Wtf? This video for "Lived in Bars" prominently showcases Marshall's newly-minted frown-upside-down steez, as she dons a backward baseball cap and plants kisses on the cheeks of bar patrons before they all get up and have a dance party. The whole thing, right down to the Cassius Clay windbreaker, is so smile-inducing you'll wish every day was Cat Power day.

MSTRKRFT: "Work on You"

Death From Above 1979 side project extraordinaire MSTRKRFT releases its debut via Last Gang Records July 18, but we've already got the video for second single "Work on You". It watches like either an outtake from Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 with straight-up robots instead of blue aliens, or an elaborate public service announcement about the necessity of wearing a safety belt. Either way, this robot's an asshole, and his girlfriend deserved better. Rebuilding that shit's the least he can do.

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness: "According to Plan"

Austin-based I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness' latest single, "According to Plan", is easily their best song to date (we liked it enough to make it one of the first entries on our Infinite Mixtape). Now, it's one of the year's boringest videos! Picking up on the track's resemblance to Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" (a good thing!), director Eric Tu projects vocalist Christian Goyer on a nearby wall (not that captivating) and spends the rest of the time bathing the guys in a blue light that makes them look like they're auditioning for house band in the strip club from Flashdance. Hope you like fog machines.