Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (quite an awkward name) is the third studio album by the Scottish rock 'n roll band Franz Ferdinand. Alex Kapranos and his friends handed the production to Dan Carey this time, and the result is quite good I must say.

At first few listens you get an idea that this album was intended for the dance-floor. However things change after a while, this is still a rock album, and a very good one. You get hard guitar riffs, even a few short guitar solos which is not something we heard from these guys before.

Rob Hardy really pushed hard on this as the bass is more dominant than ever. At some point (Can't Stop Feeling) you just find yourself listening to the bass and ignoring the rest of the band. Alex Kapranos' vocals are not extra-ordinary yet not average. He just uses his vocal range quite effectively. He knows his limits, and executes flawlessly. Nick McCarthy is like he was in the first two albums. He is just great, full stop.

The pace of the album is near perfect. Opens up with "Ulysses" the first single, is an electronic-rock song with great tempo. 3rd track "No You Girls" is also catching, you don't get bored at the first half of the album but there isn't really something worth much attention. Things start to get a little better at track 7 "Bite Hard". "What She Came for" is a proper rock song with a little solo outro. The party-piece is "Can't Stop Feeling" and located at track 9/12. It's clearly the climax of the album.Trumpets resemble Cake songs a little bit. "Lucid Dreams" is the longest song of the album with 7:56 and second half of the song is an experimental techno keyboard solo. Then they close the festivities with two slow songs. It's not an album that you listen good songs first and then get bored or get bored waiting for the good songs to come. There are good songs at the begining, then a little stall, and a fast climb to the top.

Franz Ferdinand has really done a proper job. They didn't make the mistake The Killers and Muse did, and donated us 3 wonderful albums. Is this their best album up-to-date? You can't tell. Which one is their best album? Well you can't tell thet either. The next album is crucial for them, more important than the first three. With this album, we may be witnessing history as it is being written.