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Since I know at least two people on my friends list listen to them…
Franz Ferdinand’s third album comes out in a little over two weeks, but if you’d like to give it a listen before you buy it, here is:
( Tonight: Franz Ferdinand )
I would write more of a review, since I’ve been anticipating this album for quite a while, but I like Alex’s descriptions in the new NME more than anything I would have come up with.
My personal favorites are: “Ulysses”, “No You Girls”, “Twilight Omens”, “Live Alone”, “Lucid Dreams”, and “Dream Again”. The only song I don’t care for too much is “Katherine Kiss Me” because it’s kind of boring. It doesn’t feel like there is any build-up to a climax, which I think is necessary when a song only consists of vocals and acoustic guitar. I think if it were mixed a little differently, it would have a better flow. I just think it’s odd to end the album with a slow song and also have one right before it. Otherwise, I absolutely love the album. In fact, I like it more than their previous one, and almost just as much as their debut, which is saying a lot because that album is near perfection. In Tonight, there is quite a bit of focus on bass guitar on this album, which fuses well into the electronic and disco parts, experimenting with the Doppler effect, as well as African and reggae influences.
The thing I love about Franz Ferdinand is that they’re on an indie label but don’t conform to the sound of all the boring indie bands out there nowadays. There are only a handful of other alternative/indie bands taking creative risks, which is such a shame. Even though this album’s artwork and the video for "Ulysses" don’t have the Russian constructivist aesthetic they’ve used in the past, I still consider them to be art rock and hate when they’re lumped in with all the dreadfully boring indie bands like Death Cab for Cutie and the post-punk imitators like The Killers and She Wants Revenge. I think it’s genius how “Lucid Dreams” starts off as a bass-driven, straight-up rock ‘n’ roll song and evolves into this eight-minute-long electro-disco epic without being pretentious.
( Tonight: Franz Ferdinand )
I would write more of a review, since I’ve been anticipating this album for quite a while, but I like Alex’s descriptions in the new NME more than anything I would have come up with.
My personal favorites are: “Ulysses”, “No You Girls”, “Twilight Omens”, “Live Alone”, “Lucid Dreams”, and “Dream Again”. The only song I don’t care for too much is “Katherine Kiss Me” because it’s kind of boring. It doesn’t feel like there is any build-up to a climax, which I think is necessary when a song only consists of vocals and acoustic guitar. I think if it were mixed a little differently, it would have a better flow. I just think it’s odd to end the album with a slow song and also have one right before it. Otherwise, I absolutely love the album. In fact, I like it more than their previous one, and almost just as much as their debut, which is saying a lot because that album is near perfection. In Tonight, there is quite a bit of focus on bass guitar on this album, which fuses well into the electronic and disco parts, experimenting with the Doppler effect, as well as African and reggae influences.
The thing I love about Franz Ferdinand is that they’re on an indie label but don’t conform to the sound of all the boring indie bands out there nowadays. There are only a handful of other alternative/indie bands taking creative risks, which is such a shame. Even though this album’s artwork and the video for "Ulysses" don’t have the Russian constructivist aesthetic they’ve used in the past, I still consider them to be art rock and hate when they’re lumped in with all the dreadfully boring indie bands like Death Cab for Cutie and the post-punk imitators like The Killers and She Wants Revenge. I think it’s genius how “Lucid Dreams” starts off as a bass-driven, straight-up rock ‘n’ roll song and evolves into this eight-minute-long electro-disco epic without being pretentious.