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Album Review: Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Jan 26, 2009, 8:00am the bathysphere
Album Review: Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand Domino, 2009 T his is dance music. Sounds like they spent those last four years digging up Soviet synths on eBay and parsing musical dictionaries for a working definition of "dub bass." Twelve tracks rarely suggest anything more than another post-punk update (Orange Juice + Sandinista! Clash) on which NME can safely stake a cover story. "Ulysses" is your "Take Me Out," "Lucid Dreams" is your utterly unforeseen eight-minute journey to the center of electronica, and "Katherine Kiss Me" is your [...]
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