Will Franz Ferdinand ever again write a song as great as “Take Me Out?” Now on their third album, the Scottish quartet famed for making rock music that girls can dance to is proving that, while their most popular song wasn’t exactly a fluke, recapturing the glow of that breakthrough single may indeed be impossible.
Tonight’s first song, (and first single), “Ulysses” certainly doesn’t do the trick — while it has that signature FF sound, it’s pretty weak. It doesn’t represent the album as a whole, though, which soups up the band’s distinctive sound with a high synth content. While the rock songs are OK, the band is at its best when it’s unapologetically dancey — why the cheeky bouncer “No You Girls” isn’t the album’s lead single is a mystery. Oddly, FF mix things up by ending the album not with a bang, but with a few slow numbers, including the pretty “Katherine Kiss Me.” Tonight won’t give modern rock the jolt that “Take Me Out” did, but for their third time out, Franz Ferdinand are holding strong.
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