Tonight by Franz Ferdinand

Pros: Ulysses, Lucid Dreams
Cons: Familiar sounds, only a couple of good tracks

Franz Ferdinand made a fantastic arrival in 2004 with their eponymous debut album. It was a British award winner and well received by critics. Take Me Out, Matinee and Darts of Pleasure were significant high notes that announced Franz Ferdinand as one of ...

Pros: Starts of with a cool, decadent concept, and one of their best singles yet.
Cons: They do the whole urban ennui thing too effectively for their own good.

In the first couple of minutes of Franz Ferdinand's promisingly/threateningly titled third album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, you get a palpable sense that you may have just stumbled into the kind of bar on the kind of night where some act of ...

Pros: Danceable, well-polished records. Franz still have some big, toe-tappin' hooks.
Cons: Ultimately forgettable... doesn't experiment enough to get real exciting

Although it's been three years since we last heard any new music from Glaswegian post-punkers Franz Ferdinand, I can't say I've missed them. In the intervening years, not one night was spent lying awake, pining after lead singer Alex Kampranos' ...

Pros: A few truly great songs, nice rhythms, more experimentation
Cons: A few truly terrible songs, no repeat value, weak lyrics, mechanical and bland

June 2004. Remember that summer? I was fourteen, hanging out at the swimming pool with my friends, eating bad nachos and getting sunburned. I heard a voice over all the chatter of the heat - a voice with swagger. And it wasn't just any swagger. It was ...