![]() ![]() ![]() Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out: UK: Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out: See also. Already thoroughly compelling in its tense first verse, the song deftly transitions into a skittering all chorus second section marked by its incessant beat and. You Girls, one of half-a-dozen tracks that could be future singles, harks back to the band’s debut, with angular guitar hooks and a pounding bassline, while What She Came For starts off like Blondie and finishes with a headbanging 40-second rock wig-out. Release Dates USA 23 February 2004: Also Known As (AKA). Few songs scream mid-2000s louder than the breakthrough single from Franz Ferdinand, but Take Me Out transcends the short-lived dance-punk craze from which it emerged. Lead single Ulysses starts as it means to go on, with whispery, spoken vocals turning into a thumping beat and catchy la-la-la chorus. Setting them apart is a bizarre military chic, the best basslines since peak New Order.The most ebullient British debut since Elastica.", Ranked #7 in Magnet's "The 20 Best Albums Of 2004" - "Packed with stuttering mechanical riffs and smoking-jacket panache.", Ranked #3 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "This Scottish quartet's debut feels life-altering from first listen."Īrty post-punk meets electro-indie as the Glaswegian quartet stray a little bit out of their comfort zone – and the result is January’s contender for album of the year.Ĭalling this a return to form would be doing a disservice to 2005’s You Could Have It So Much Better, but seven years and three albums in, the boys have discovered synths – and it feels like the last piece of a jigsaw has slotted in. Ranked #10 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "With precise guitars and jagged rhythmic angles, flushed with the arthouse swagger of Talking Heads and XTC.", 5 stars out of 5 - "A dynamic, direct debut from funky, punky junk-shop monkeys who strut, swagger and shrug nonchalantly.", Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "Their album is one killer song after another.", Ranked #51 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" - "A marriage of Britpop and post-punk.It won us over with its exuberance, hauteur and relentless songwriting.", 4 stars out of 5 - "They see things in their own way and the songs feel like they're boiling over, there's so much heat under them.", 4 stars out of 5 - "Utterly unique. ![]()
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