“After a few years of non-stop activity that found them moving from clubs to a Mercury Prize win and Grammy performance, Franz Ferdinand took time off and have re-emerged with an album that, more so than stoking current commerical prospects, is an exciting look at the band's potential future.”
“"I’ve found a new way, baby," sings Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos on the slashing funk-pop album opener, "Ulysses." But has he really? Three albums in, FF are doing the same thing, more or less the same way, with the same proficiency that catapulted them to the top of the international indie heap: setting louche […]”
