Pitchfork

As Marc Hogan wrote of Franz Ferdinand's take on LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" in a late-April Forkcast post, "In Franz's hands, the original's minimalist subway-clatter piano barely even arrives.

Instead, the Archduke and producer Erol Alkan show off interlocking guitars, airy 80s synths, and singer Alex Kapranos' theatrical croon, putting the band's polished new-new-wave boots on LCD's poignant NYC cool."

There's nothing polished about the Anna McCarthy-designed video for Franz's clip, an amalgam of bizarre effects, blinking, and at least one hand-eating scene.