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DVDfever.co.uk – Franz Ferdinand: Tonight: Franz FerdinandElly Roberts reviews
Domino Records
CD: 
Special Edition:
- Released: January 2009
- Rating: 10/10
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Franz go disco. Sweaty stuff.
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is music of the night: to fling yourself around your room to as you psyche yourself for a night of hedonism, for the dance floor, flirtation, for your desolate heart-stop, for losing it and loving losing it , for the chemical surge in your bloodstream. Its for that lonely hour gently rocking yourself waiting for dawn and it all to be even again Alex Kapranos.
Yeah right I get the picture. To you and me, he means a cracking night out, getting sweaty (?), and recovering from a hangover, or whatever.
Sounds like the good old days of 1978 Saturday Night Fever been there, done that, and great it was too, thank you.
So, all the couched clap-trap is about a disco album, basically.
To me that means PARTY-TIME, so we cant take this album too serious. Whopping new single Ulysses is a statement of intent as Kapranos snarls, Im bored, Im bored, come on lets get high, and theyre off on their hedonistic night.
To their credit, this is a much better album than the two previous ones too many filler tracks.
Franz are all about thumping anthemic pop songs, which theyve done all over again, only better, over the entire album.
Theyve also experimented with different sounds like synthesisers, a minor progression admittedly.
Recorded in an unorthodox venue cum studio, a cavernous locating in Glasgow, and messing with swinging mics suspended from the high ceiling, it doesnt reveal anything significantly new about them.
Nevertheless, Tonight : Franz Ferdinand is like a bill-board announcement theyre on here tonight, so look out.
Theyve recently played a gig to a dance audience, and went down a storm aim achieved. At the heart of their music are whopping riffs, which few bands can match, except maybe Bodyrockers, whove cracked the cracked pop-rock-disco format brilliantly. So have they sold their soul ? No. Its not real progression per say, a sideways move.
Thus, Franz are hot on their heels with Turn It On, No You Girls, and well, most of the collection, except the down-time (dawn maybe?) Dream Again (dawn maybe?) and gorgeous acoustic Katherine Kiss Me, which is pretty cool, and sweet.
The verdict Do I like it? Yes ..a lot actually.
Radio: Hear tracks soon onwrexhamfm.com Weblink:franzferdinand.co.uk
The full list of tracks included are :
1. Ulysses
2. Turn It On
3. No You Girls
4. Send Him Away
5. Twilight Omens
6. Bite Hard
7. What She Came For
8. Live Alone
9. Cant Stop Feeling
10. Lucid Dreams
11. Dream Again
12. Katherine Kiss MeView the discussion thread.blog comments powered by Disqus= 0) {query += ‘url’ + i + ‘=’ + encodeURIComponent(links[i].href) + ‘&’;}}document.write(”);})();//]]]]>]]>
Elly Roberts passed away in 2011, but he was a man who was so passionate about all types of music and loved meeting his musical heroes, such as Mick Hucknall at a book signing at the Trafford Centre, Manchester in 2007.
A former teacher and also a music journalist, DJ and radio presenter on local community station Calon FM, plus appearances on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 2, Elly started doing reviews for DVDfever.co.uk in 2004 and he did the majority of the CD and concerts reviews on the website.
I know also that he loved getting away for the summer to Spain and I hope that wherever he is now he is enjoying the hot sunshine and, as one of his friends has said on his Facebook page, that he is interviewing his musical heroes.