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I don’t bloody know where to start…

When I first sat down with this album, cherishing the thought of getting to know it a little better (with an option of getting a little intimate) – I didn’t know what to expect. I knew that the album will be good, and good it is, but I also knew that there is a possibility of Franz Ferdinand getting carried away with their experimenting and shit… The good news is – they’re still good old Franz Ferdinand cooked by the same old recipe, but the dressing and the spices are a little different this time around. The bad news is that a lot of people dislike it…

Fuck it all I say. You aren’t a “lot of people” (I’d like to believe), you’re a beautiful and unique snowflake. Keeping this thought in mind go here. No, seriously, click away. Watch the video, then come back.

So, now that you’ve watched that really cool documentary lets get to the point. The album is great. No, seriously it is. I’d buy it just because of the fact that it was recorded in a town hall that hasn’t been used for twenty goddamn years, but that’s just me.

All the way from The Fallen to Ulysses… they’ve come to entertain and make us dance to rock songs. And they’ve been doing a bloody good job.

Ulysses is catchy as hell and pops into your head (seemly at random) throughout the day, making you want to put your headphones on and listen to the track yet again… which you end up doing. Seriously, it’s like a plague. There’s no avoiding it.

Turn It On (which is the second track) has a tendency of… well turning you on. Sweet, sweet, sweet guitars.

After that goes my personal favourite No You Girls acoustic version of which radiates simplicity and charm that you’ll instantly fall in love with. I’m really not sure where to get that acoustic version, I stumbled upon it accidentally, while doing my research, but I’m not gonna tell you where I found it because I’m a mean bastard.

Let me stop right here and tell you something that you, being a beautiful and unique snowflake, may already be thinking.

I can break the album down for you. I can tell you why you should like every single song. I can tell you how guitars sound on every song. I can tell you that this record is beautifully but not overly produced. I can tell you a lot of things about this record. I can even link you to two more reviews that do precisely that (hint: they break it down for you). But what I CANT do is tell you whether you’ll like this record or not…

So how about you just go and pick it up from the store (and yes, I know that you have $20 to buy the CD so stop being a cheap fcuk), go back home, pop it into your sound system and see for yourself?

And that is why this review is so incredibly useless and ridiculously short…

Now if you will excuse me, I have No You Girls to listen to… for an *nth time….

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Franz Ferdinand
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Toronto, ON
Mon, May 4, 2009 08:00 PM

Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On by Franz Ferdinand (ed. note (Allan):we want to friendly with the Web Sheriff so here’s an old track)

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