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Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Limited Edition) (2004)
	Album details
	Label:     Ref#: folk-0002 Date: 2004   Category: rock Length: 54:41     Format: CD   Record Store Day:   Audio: Stereo   Album Collection Title:   Genre: Indie Rock   Album Collection Disc Nbr:
Notes/Reviews
Franz Ferdinand is an unrelentingly smart, fluffy, and fun debut. This Scottish four-piece plays vaguely angular, guitar-heavy post-pop that makes you want to dance around the room while playing air guitar. It's the ideal hipster guilty-pleasure music. This is what the Rapture and Interpol would sound like if they wrote songs half as good as those they rip off, or the Strokes if their parents had sent them to art school instead of the fashion academy. Every song on here is so blatantly derivative it sounds almost original, like a Blur without the gloomy hangover. It's too early yet to tell if this is just a band for the moment or one for the ages--but who really cares with pop music, anyway? Songs like "Darts of Pleasure," "Come on Home," "Take Me Out," and "Cheating on You" are so good they will surely appeal even to those without slanty, messy haircuts. --Mike McGonigal
Songs/Tracks
Franz Ferdinand: 1.   Jacqueline  3:49 2.   Tell Her Tonight  2:17 3.   Take Me Out  3:57 4.   The Dark Of The Matinée  4:03 5.   Auf Achse  4:19 6.   Cheating On You  2:36 7.   This Fire  4:14 8.   Darts Of Pleasure  2:59 9.   Michael  3:21 10.   Come On Home  3:46 11.   40'  3:24 Bonus CD: 1.   This Fffire  3:32 2.   Van Tango  3:26 3.   Shopping For Blood  3:34 4.   All For You, Sophia  3:00 5.   Words So Leisured  2:18
Recording/Credits

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