 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand knows how to leave 'em wanting more … and here's nine-and-a-half minutes to tide you over. With a full-length album and three EPs (with variant tracks scattered across CD, 7" and 12" versions) in only nine months, you'd think the thirst would be quenched, but each release packs a ton of swoonpower into a short span of time, so you keep wanting to catch another glimpse, like when a celebrity walks into a restaurant and is hustled to a dark and private VIP booth in the back. And this isn't, like, a Wayne Knight-level celebrity, we're talking at least Jake Gyllenhaal. Take Me Out has the fine single of that name (which, incidentally, I heard a pretty f'n cool mashup of in which it was fused with "Milkshake"), plus the delicious b-side "All For You, Sophia" and a moody, sort of Arab Strap-ish acoustic version of "Darts of Pleasure" called "Words So Leisured." I like how these guys re-title their alternate versions, so you start losing track of which songs are actually on the album and which ones are b-sides. It all starts blending together in a beautiful blur, like just the right number of Scotches at the Suicide Girls Mansion. The Suicide Girls don't have a mansion? Well, they should.
Review by Heidi Jewelry |