FRANZ FERDINAND THIRD ALBUM ANTICIPATION THREAD!

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This is gonna be 70 posts of zing and then the album will come out and it'll just be American dudes talking about indie.

A perfect summation of ILM.

didn't you clowns get the memo about it sounding like Girls Aloud?

last album was shit apart from the first single. supposedly the new one has loads of synths. but then weve all heard that before.

"Franz Ferdinand have much more in common with Girls Aloud than certain other bands", said Kapranos.

Aren't they working with Xenomania?

Ban pop music and indie now.

"but then weve all heard that before"

Perfect review, months before release.

BAN: pop music, indie, max r
BRING BACK: folk, Superpippo

how franz ferdinand albums are made

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I have to declare an interest so I'm not reading this thread because you boys make me ;___;

But for the record the last album was half-great and I have faith the next one will be better.

Enomania is the magic key

with a little Hornography on the side

i would listen to cat music.

Cat music's lost its taste, try another flavour?

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The first single I liked at first, but the appeal waned.

The second one was "oh you have made a nice video have you?"

The third I liked, and still do.

Compare to the first album, which I like all of, the second I played once and who cared?

it's rubbish. maybe they'll have another video set in an art gallery, with lots of art because, y'kmow, they're really arty and went to art school and like art.

oh for fuck's sake.

i sure hope 'andi' doesnt like franz ferdinand.

y'kmow!

also, i blame trance for nu-indie.

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slow week at the office.

here's to hoping it gets faster.

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this is max r's demo.

The zing is stronger than the dollar

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How about that Franz Ferdinand, then?

I thought the singles on the last album were v v good, but the rest of the album was poor - very samey, not very memorable at all. It would be great if they made an album that was as good as the singles all the way through?

they're really good. checkin out some vids on youtube and i would say they've got potential, there's a lot of interesting bands coming out of the uk at the moment and ff are right there at the forefront of this exciting new scene.

ban^

Now now. You know sarcasm doesn't work if not spoken, right?

xpost... well, you too!

For this to be half as good as people say FF are there needs to be lots more stomping in a Take Me Out/Do You Want To vein and less of, well, everything else they do.

i want a whole album of 'auf achse' please.

I like them best when they sound like The Divine Comedy.

A whole album of "Eleanor, Put Your Boots On"s would be fine too.

^^^^^^ yes

Was the Cardigans' producer-guy on the last album or just the first? Is he on this one?

I'm hoping for nothing less than a modern day Parallel Lines.

don't bet against it.

"hoping" != "expecting," though.

Every time I hope or expect a Parallel Lines from a favorite band the album sounds like Autoamerican.

I'm sure I'll be hearing this new one a lot, the wife is a huge fan. I liked the first album a lot, but on the second they seemed to be trying to prove to the world that they could really ROCK, an unnecessary gesture. Plus, the singer's vocals were too shouty in a lot of places. Still, the second album grew on me over time.

I hope on this next one, they are willing to tone things down a bit and bring back some of the smoothness that made songs like "Dark of the Matinee" and "Darts of Pleasure" so enjoyable.

apparently Jay-Z is already obsessed with this, so dud

Well, the smoothness of "Walk away" can buggr off.

relistening to ulysses and i like it more than i remembered - obv has no single potential but i don't mind this stilted kinda chilled out vibe from them especially in terms of a third album. there are only so many "take me out"/"do you wanna"/"this fire" type songs that they can do. it's a pretty confident sounding song.

Is the new album still going to be kind of more synth oriented than the two first? Or have they abandoned that again?

only liked that first single off the 2nd album. the rest was pretty damp retreads or poor attempts to 'go in a diff direction' to the debut. id like to see if they really have gone synthy or if its just another case of what they did last time, where they talked about listening to nothing but amerie and lil jon but then releasing a single that sounded like scary monsters-ish bowie.

A good thing it didn't sound a thing like Amerie but a lot like Bowie :)

I saw them at a SECRET GIG in Glasgow last year and they were absolutely dire. I have no hopes for this whatsoever.

Leaked. Do I care enough to do a track by track at this time of night? Probably not.

i might i have nothing to do tonight - i do care enough fwiw

No You Girls is the song they played at Glastonbury, or one of them. It's pretty good.

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It is not exactly what you'd call a radical step forward from the last album, put it that way.

Oh, Track 10 indicates they have gone a bit 'electro'. You know, like everyone else.

Hey Franz Ferdinand fans! I hope you like mediocre albums, because you're in for a treat.

Is "Ulysses" the best song? Because if it is I'm not gonna bother.

It is not exactly what you'd call a radical step forward from the last album

Why would that be needed anyway? If they have added a little bit of synths to colorize the music, that is enough of what is needed.

Nobody talked about the second album being a change from the first, but yet it had a couple acoustic-tinged melodic ballads that were nothing like anything on the debut. So if the change is bigger than that....

Katherine Kiss Me is fabulous.

Pretty mediocre, but it flows well enough. Highlights are the last three songs.

'Can't Stop Feeling' sounded better in a demo (maybe live?) I heard 2-3 years ago, so it's been kicking around for ages.

I can't be objective with FF but I'm thinking this is pretty nice on first listen. It's not immediately the Great Leap Forward I'd kidded myself it was gonna be but there's interesting stuff happening under the surface and it feels like they've polished the old template down to a really pleasing shine.

"Twilight Omens" is fucking A+ for a start.

D'yknow what, I think the boringest part of them is the production on the voices, that's what creates the continuity/sameiness. Also this is patently less analoguely skronk than when they were playing it live, but interesting and fun shit is still happening all over the record.

Sounds like those who like them still like them, while those who dislike them still like them.

Probably good, then they haven't done a "Kid A" or "13".

I've always quite liked them, and to be honest this didn't need to be a radical step forward but I think the songs needed to be better than this, only a couple really grab me so far. FF songs are generally pretty immediate and not exactly slow burning growers so I'm not sure if my opinion will change over time.

Ulysses is good btw, I don't really get the hate.

Why is Daniel Craig on the album cover?

Sounds like those who like them still like them, while those who dislike them still like them

Except me.

To ask FF to take "radical step forward" is a serious misreading of their achievements and capabilities. I expect them to grind the same album over and over until they and I get bored.

I was being facetious with the radical step forward thing.

Yeh, so were FF.

I would say the second album was a considerably change from the first one. But of course if you cannot imagine any "radical step forward" without abandoning traditional song structures, then you will mostly get disappointed.

I think I was selling them a bit short upthread, after listening to the second album again, because it is pretty different but sort of... the same. Like their essential blueprint hasn't really changed but it's porous enough to allow other influences to seep in. The taut, faster post-punky material has gone and they're wearing the disco influences on their sleeve more visibly.

I'm not whether this indicates an overall broadening of influences, or whether they've just kept place with the (pretty significant) change fashionable indie sounds since 2005 - a bit of Vampire Weekend in the second half of Send Him Away, a bit of Hot Chip in the opening to Can't Stop Feeling etc.

Still think the tunes could be stronger overall though, although the run from No You Girls through to Bite Hard is terrific. I don't like the electro freakout at the end of Lucid Dreams, it feels tacked on and gimmicky.

"Twilight Omens" is fucking A+ for a start.

Yeah this is OTM. They're better at doing soaring Beatles melodies than most actual Beatles copyists (see also Eleanor Put Those Boots On).

I was a bit pessimistic, but this album is better than I'd expected. I saw them live last summer and they seemed a bit disintergrated, good to hear the contrary of this.
Matt is OTM about the need (or not need) of a "radical step forward": songs could have been a little better, but overall still a good album. "Live Alone" is terrific.

Well up for this - saw them in Berlin in November and the new stuff came across very well, especially 'Ulysses' and the ace 'What She Came For'. First album material's markedly stronger than all subsequent songs though...

Worst pop video ever, probably:

First album material's markedly stronger than all subsequent songs though

Nope. 1st > 2nd > 3rd, easy.

So you're saying no but agreeing with him?

Not sure what's going on there, either.

Haha don't type hungover, kids. Those should have been "less thans".

I disagree, I liked the first album better than this one, but this one better than the second.

great single/video. or at least great at capturing what it feels like to be high at spaceland/ echo parque

why would anyone want them to take a "great leap forward" anyway, when they started out in a state of near-perfection...i just want to see this party keep going, and if that means more eight balls for all in tight tailored suits with predictable synths, then plz don't stop

>I was being facetious with the radical step forward thing.

sorry i'll pretend to read the thread next time

I don't like the electro freakout at the end of Lucid Dreams, it feels tacked on and gimmicky

i like it but it should've been a separate track (part 2 or something) with him singing over it a bit

N1ck just taped a message to my daughter on his guitar while they played Ant & Dec lolololololol

This has held up pretty well over the year, enough little twists and turns to keep it sounding fresh.

I reckons that box of singles version will end up in teh Fopp.

"Katherine Kiss Me" playing at Starbucks. I haven't thought about this album in a looooong time.

3rd pretty much sucks aside from one or two, 4th is a killer IMO probably their best after the debut.

i mean..

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3rd is probably my fave FF album lol, love the production

and they're back! touring! new songs! new album!

http://www.nme.com/news/music/franz-ferinand-new-album-song-tour-always-ascending-interview-2153300

New line-up too, since Nick McCarthy isn't in the band anymore.