Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
In just two albums, Franz Ferdinand was installed atop the alternative rock scene as its sales by its influence. Two albums: it’s little but a lot of both. Soon as one false step would mean already shelved. Many are waiting now for the Scots a good dose of news. Fortunately, the band leader Alex Kapranos announced a few months before the release of Tonight, that “the new compositions are more dance than rock. What redefine the musical trend of the moment.
The least we can say is that the gang of Glasgow has not been idle since its debut, exploring many artistic areas in just three games and thirty-six songs with an urgency that betrayed only the frenetic tempo of “You Could Have It So Much Better “. Kapranos is in this sense: “It raises many questions, and we are aware that the group has a limited lifespan. Here, the priority of the group and its producer Dan Carey deeply involved were slowing the pace of music became a bit frantic after months on the road to focus on the core values of the group and enrich with touches dance, reggae and psychedelic.
Kapranos continues: “There are very few guitar chords on the disk, it is used mainly to add songs. That we are excited to have done a little with the guitar, and get rid of the status of the group Indie Rock. As often with such sensational statements, the reality is somewhat different. However, there Tonight on a different angle of approach, the kind of openness that allows a long outro psyche trance-like Lucid Dreams see the day and especially to work without seeming increase delirium arty. Even if we did not get the impression of listening to Franz Ferdinand, we rediscover the group that was not afraid to bring out his mad personality on songs UFO type of “Take Me Out” or “Michael” .
Tonight, more than the other two cakes, a very real form where each sequence is calculated. Kapranos confirms: “We then wanted to push the idea further, by constructing the disk model as a night out: there is first a part of preparation, excitement latent, then the climax of the evening, and finally back to the fold, with the dawn and fatigue. “It is in this return trip that night Franz Ferdinand proved the most interesting in a disc that you feel the transition. “Dream Again” and “Katherine Kiss Me ‘, soft aerated reminders, highlight the quiet lullabies with a melodic percussive psyche for the first and the second sound.
Finally, Tonight stretches and scattered. Although the first baffle plays strongly, you let yourself gradually gain the expertise of Scots. Tonight should not trust the first place prizes of the best records at year end as its illustrious predecessors, but we bet the doors open here will highlight new opportunities.
Line-up:
Alex Kapranos (vocals, guitar)
Nick McCarthy (guitar, keyboards)
Bob Hardy (bass)
Paul Thomson (drums)
Tracklist for Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (bold cuts key):
1. Ulysses – 3:11
2. Turn It On – 2:21
3. No You Girls “- 3:42
4. Send Him Away – 2:59
5. Twilight Omens “- 2:30
6. Bite Hard – 3:26
7. What She Came For – 3:52
8. Live Alone – 3:29
9. Can not Stop Feeling – 3:03
10. Lucid Dreams – 7:56
11. Dream Again – 3:18
12. Katherine Kiss Me – 2:56
Discography:
Franz Ferdinand (2004)
You Could Have It So Much Better (2005)
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (2009)
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight …
In just two albums, Franz Ferdinand was installed atop the alternative rock scene as its sales by its influence. Two albums: it’s little but a lot of both. Soon as one false step would mean already shelved. Many are waiting now for the Scots a good dos…