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Their best album, and their best song

B. Washington | 01/29/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There is something to like on each of FF's albums, but what really sets apart "Tonight" is the fact that the entire album is better than average. There is not a single song that i have to skip. From top to bottom you have single-worthy songs except for a couple slower songs at the end.



But the absolute best thing about this album is LUCID DREAMS. I had never seen FF live before i bought this, and i had no idea that the song had been around for a while as a special treat for live shows.



But after listening to that song my life was changed. It is unlike any song i have ever heard. It is unlike previous FF songs. It is a sonic masterpiece that i have listened to ATLEAST 5 times EVERY SINGLE DAY for the last 5 months. The song never gets old. Every single time i reach the chorus i cant help but sing along with a giant grin on my face. It is the kind of song that 40 years from now it will still have the same energy.



Considering how utterly awesome Lucid Dreams is, i would pay $100 for this album just so i could hear musical perfection before i die"

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Theodore Odeluga | 03/13/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Tonight" being the best Franz Ferdinand album so far, puts the fun back into funk as it mixes rock, dance and other elements reminding everyone how exciting (while being grown up) guitar based pop can be.



Opener "Ulysses" is a dark parable of druggy delusion and the dangers of being out at night with strangers who might well be angels or demons. It takes you on a slow and quietly menacing journey that is simultaneously frightening and strangely seductive, generating a sublime pleasure below its calm but threatening surface, with a glint in its eye full of promise and risk.



"Turn it on" is a tale of obsessive love with a great rock and roll feel to it that only the Ferdinand's could manage with "No you girls" and "Send him away" being loosely connected to it conceptually.



"No you girls" is probably the most eloquent, insightful (not to mention coolest) song ever written about the phenomenon of "boy meets girl". Its subtle play on sexual politics uses an innocent teen ritual for its backdrop, creating a new and interesting twist on the drama of a young person's coming of age.



"Send him away" also has a sweet sound which is ironically contrasted by its content. Get a load of the saucy lyric "Well, I don't care his skin is still between still folds on your sheets..." sounding like something else if you use your imagination. It's also the most honest account of jealousy you'll hear in a contemporary rock track for a while.



"Twilight omens" is a surreal take on "Turn it on" - obsessive love seen through the lens of a semi-dream state and no doubt a few cans of lager the night before and could easily slot into the same thematic folder containing "Lucid dreams", an epic fusion of good solid rock, psychedelia and acidic, industrial electronica, next to "Dream again", a hallucinatory trip that could have come off "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band".



My favourites though have to be the high energy of "Can't stop feeling", a funky expression of the ennui and abandonment of the lovelorn and "Live alone", one of those excellent dance tracks that speaks of a grim emotional truth while disguised as a catchy disco rhythm.



"Katherine kiss me" provides a sweet romantic closure and is an ending that arrives much too soon. It's the cue to immediately put the whole album back on to once again enjoy a thrill you know you never missed but want to replay all the same.



"Tonight" creates the atmosphere of a good night out and explores the world that exists in all those lost weekends of Friday night pub crawls, Saturday night dance marathons and hazy descents into the malaise of Sunday morning. As the first track "Ulysses" suggests, it's a modern poem to the spirit of adventure in an urban landscape that's as exciting and as dangerous as anything in an epic myth.

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