c’mon let’s get high

Some forgotten person once said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. To that person, I give Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. The really peculiarly sexy (is it just me?) Scots have taken everything that was working about their indie formula and mixed it around abit. The result is still undoubtably a Franz Ferdinand cd, but like nothing they've done before.

They've always been something abit new and exciting, and in a time where there's too many Kooks-a-likes being played in hmv, they refuse to settle in that rubbish guitar band stereotype. The album opener, Ulysses, takes all expectations and goes beyond them. It's addictive, it's sexy, and it'll get your sholders moving. They're dipping their toes into the sizzling waters of dance music and the result is a seductively dark album. The second half of lucid dreams, an 8 minute long track that starts out as your run of the mill Franz Ferdinand track and descends into pure electronica half way through, wouldn't sound that out of place in a dance club.

It's not without flaws though. Between the stand out tracks, everything blurs into one track. It's all good, but it's all kind of the same. After four or five listens, I still couldn't put a name to some of the tracks. Alot of them offer promising starts and then fall into the same format as the rest, and it's a real shame because this album could have been something truely great. It could have been a pop masterpiece that sent the boys back to the chart success they achieved with their debut.

For now, Franz Ferdinand are still firmly on the shores of indie, and I doubt true electronia fans will be rushing out to get their copy, but it should get some indie kids on the floor.