Franz Ferdinand

If you need a refresher course on the art of the hookup, here it is. The Glaswegians tease, flirt and seduce with funky disco-electro-punk that echoes a debauched night on the town. Propelled by an unrelenting 4/4 beat, Tonight bounces along with suggestive sentiments all the way to the end-of-the-night-kiss lullaby. All the saucy talk is augmented by hints of dub, spacey synths, Hot Chip-ish electro beeps and reeling guitar solos -- most notably on "Lucid Dreams." It's Franz Ferdinand's most vivacious album yet, and it's got enough sexy swagger to help get your mojo running.

"I've found a new way, baby," sings Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos on the
slashing funk-pop album opener, "Ulysses." But has he really? Three albums in, FF are doing
the same thing, more or less the same way, with the same proficiency that catapulted them
to the top of the international indie heap: setting louche tales of sex and romance to
ferociously catchy white-boy disco grooves. Fans of the band's breakthrough si... More >