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Feb. 4th, 2009 03:29 pmI finally got my hands on Franz Ferdinand's third album, 'Tonight' courtesy of that emporium of hip, Sainsbury's. Aye, rock is not dead. I'd heard quite a few of the tracks at their Latitude show and also in the tiny show they did in Shoreditch last year.
I bought the 2 CD special edition, with the second disk being a set of dub remixes of the songs on the main CD, and I've just started playing it...funny sensation, I find, you poke around and frown, try another track, bite your nails, fiddle... Do you know what I mean? It's the fan moment: you know you liked the previous stuff, but what's this? I want to like all the new shiny things my favourites produce, I'm a constant sort of fan; but I'm still worried as I get the CDs out and put them on. And I'm not nuts about the current single: it's OK but it's a bit of a retread.
So. The music press have been thoroughly lukewarm about the third album (well, they weren't that into the second one to be honest) and from all the coverage of the band's slow recording progress and endless experimentation with synthesisers, I've been quite prepared to find that they had disappeared up their own skinny arses. Synthesiser and all.
Just as I was twiddling and pondering and frowning I realised I'd actually started dancing at the computer.
Yes, it is experimental but they have shoved themselves somewhere right over towards dance. Or disco. It's in some deeply odd space occupied by Roxy Music, LCD Soundsystem, Scissor Sisters.. and wait, is that is that a Scottish reel buried in there all wrapped up in bossa nova? And the sound quality is gorgeous. Whatever it is (I'm still trying it out), it's not indie landfill, which is quite a relief.
FF are rather like Basement Jaxx, I think. Their studio albums don't always make sense, but their live performance is a revelation. Few people who listen to the song 'This Fire' off the first album, or 'Outsiders' from the second, would ever predict that these are ones are the encores. They're good on the albums, they make so-so singles, but live they finally make sense. Live, you want to dance a lot.
OK. I'm happy now. And I have tickets for Hammersmith Apollo \o/
My God, I agree with the NME. There's a first.
I bought the 2 CD special edition, with the second disk being a set of dub remixes of the songs on the main CD, and I've just started playing it...funny sensation, I find, you poke around and frown, try another track, bite your nails, fiddle... Do you know what I mean? It's the fan moment: you know you liked the previous stuff, but what's this? I want to like all the new shiny things my favourites produce, I'm a constant sort of fan; but I'm still worried as I get the CDs out and put them on. And I'm not nuts about the current single: it's OK but it's a bit of a retread.
So. The music press have been thoroughly lukewarm about the third album (well, they weren't that into the second one to be honest) and from all the coverage of the band's slow recording progress and endless experimentation with synthesisers, I've been quite prepared to find that they had disappeared up their own skinny arses. Synthesiser and all.
Just as I was twiddling and pondering and frowning I realised I'd actually started dancing at the computer.
Yes, it is experimental but they have shoved themselves somewhere right over towards dance. Or disco. It's in some deeply odd space occupied by Roxy Music, LCD Soundsystem, Scissor Sisters.. and wait, is that is that a Scottish reel buried in there all wrapped up in bossa nova? And the sound quality is gorgeous. Whatever it is (I'm still trying it out), it's not indie landfill, which is quite a relief.
FF are rather like Basement Jaxx, I think. Their studio albums don't always make sense, but their live performance is a revelation. Few people who listen to the song 'This Fire' off the first album, or 'Outsiders' from the second, would ever predict that these are ones are the encores. They're good on the albums, they make so-so singles, but live they finally make sense. Live, you want to dance a lot.
OK. I'm happy now. And I have tickets for Hammersmith Apollo \o/
My God, I agree with the NME. There's a first.
