The rock band’s sixth studio album has suitable swagger with lead singer Alex Kapranos singing with a showman’s relish
Franz Ferdinand’s peak years were during the indie boom on either side of the Atlantic in the 2000s. That was when they won Brit awards and sold more than 1.2mn copies of their debut album in the UK alone. Their name evokes the era of skinny trousers and reviewers referring to “angular guitars” as surely as their namesake does the events of 1914. But unlike the ill-fated archduke, the Scottish-English band hasn’t disappeared into the annals of history.
The album isn’t without its own wobbles. “Cats”, about a person’s untamable inner nature, conspires to be at once jaunty and dull. “Bar Lonely” is a routine indie jangler about drinking away solitude. The songs are more interesting when they observe the message of boldness preached by Kapranos in “Audacious”. “Black Eyelashes” borrows from the sound of Greek tavern music, a nod to the homeland of the singer’s father.
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