![]() If only more bands pivoted so triumphantly. Franz Ferdinand have made a soon-to-be classic album for people who still care about the format and a set of addictive singles for people who don't. It's a reminder that now more than ever, too few bands seem interested in new (musical) beginnings. ![]() At a breezy pace that presents 12 songs in 43 minutes (though the best song on the album is the eight-minute "Lucid Dreams," which includes a two-minute reverie of naked synthesizers and programmed cymbals that sounds like the Flaming Lips' idea of a THX sound test), Tonight has a collective grace - a top-to-bottom vision - that sounds less like a third-record Hail Mary than it does a brand-new start. On Tonight, tempos swing instead of stutter, and it's bass, not guitars, that establishes the grooves.Īnd while lead singer Alex Kapranos (above, right) is still singing mostly about pickups and breakups, the editing is meticulous 30 seconds into most songs you not only know the song title but already have a chance at singing along. It's called "Beast of Burden.") Franz Ferdinand's victory is in taking a ride. The Achilles heel of postpunk bands from Interpol to the Kaiser Chiefs is that they haven't effortlessly applied a rock sensibility to disco. Which isn't a semantical distinction it's a breakthrough. Fast-forward past a good but more-of-the-same second album to Tonight, which is not just a comeback but their meatiest surprise yet: dance music that rocks. The Scottish quartet's first and only big single begins as paint-by-numbers Brit pop followed by a decidedly hard left, after which a pounding bass line and squawking guitar bit unfurl into a buzz-building, hand-clapping, foot-stomping anthem. Their new album is a wholesale reinvention of their sound - music that lives up to the considerable promise of the first time we saw them stop and turn on a dime: 2004's "Take Me Out." You know the song even if you're not a fan. Franz Ferdinand know how to turn a spectacular pivot. If you liked our opening, you’ll love this special music video we created to the full length of This Fffire by Franz Ferdinand enjoy, chooms Music: This F.
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