"I've begin a new way, baby," sings Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos on the slashing funk-pop anthology opener, "Ulysses." But has he really? Three albums in, FF are accomplishing the aforementioned thing, added or beneath the aforementioned way, with the aforementioned accomplishment that catapulted them to the top of the all-embracing indie heap: ambience louche tales of sex and affair to berserk addictive white-boy disco grooves. Fans of the band's advance individual "Take Me Out" will acquisition no declivity in "No You Girls," with its percolating Studio 54 bass line, blasts of guitar babble and abandoned auto lines. ("Flick your cigarette and again kiss me/Kiss me area your eye will not accommodated me," Kapranos drawls.) And "Ulysses," which is about accepting top out of arduous boredom, may beat every antecedent Franz song for authentic earwormy infectiousness.
In interviews, Franz Ferdinand accept talked about toning down their guitars and abacus added ball grooves on the new record. And Tonight does action a few agreeable departures. "Katherine Kiss Me" dips into acoustic-folk balladeering, and the mordantly airy "Send Him Away" suggests the bandage has spent some time belief old Kinks records. "Lucid Dreams" sports a four-and-a-half-minute-long synth-pop agreeable coda. But Franz Ferdinand mainly stick to their small, acutely aged basics, packing songs with bounce changes and active guitar riffs. In "Twilight Omens," Kapranos sings, "I typed your number/Into my calculator/Where it spelled a bedraggled word/When you angry it upside down/You could about-face my bedraggled world/The ablaze way round." Kapranos fancies himself a capital in the Brit-pop attitude that stretches from Ray Davies to Jarvis Cocker, but he doesn't absolutely accept the wit - and doesn't action up the base of affect - to cull off the act. But the band's adamant canal makes these anxiety bookish - quibbles you leave abaft as you charge to the ball floor.
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