You Could Have It So Much BetterFranz Ferdinand · 2005

pitchfork

8.3

“You've probably clicked over here to see if the boys in this band could be suffering from any form of second-album slouching. Here's the thing, though: I'm not convinced these boys make albums. Not like that, and not in those terms. Sometimes, when we call an act a "singles band," we mean something cruel and obvious-- that their album tracks just aren't very good. But with Franz Ferdinand, we mean”

rollingstone

7.0

“"Do You Want To" — the first single from the second album by punk-pop Scots Franz Ferdinand — starts the same way all great rock & roll dance-party 45s of the mid-Sixties did: in mono. For the first eighteen seconds, the entire band is, if you’re listening with headphones, crammed into the center of your […]”