Franz Ferdinand
- Franz Ferdinand
- Band Name: Franz Ferdinand
- Record Label: Domino
- Release Date: Mar 9, 2004
- Critic Score
- Most active
- Publication
- Most clicked
-
100For all the influences, their voice is uniquely, gently mad. [Mar 2004, p.88]
-
The first great rock album of 2004. [May 2004, p.102]
-
100Franz Ferdinand's album arrives packed not just with fizzing guitars, disco-influenced drums and intriguing shifts in tempo, but also memorable songs, laden with hooklines and startling riffs.
-
91Like all lasting records, Franz Ferdinand steps up to the plate and boldly bangs on the door to stardom. There's no consideration for what trends have just come and gone. There's no waffling or concessions for people who won't get it.
-
91Relentlessly sultry, with lush arrangements framed by slamming dance beats. [#9, p.102]
-
91It's the album you wish the Strokes would've made.
-
It marks the dawning of an era of British music that isn’t just for the casual petrol shop consumer, but stuff so important that you can give yourself to it completely. This is the album that’s going kick open the door for all the great British bands that’ll sweep through in their wake.
-
90Fearsomely post-post-punk, appealingly brazen, and ambitiously tight, they have indeed made The Album That Saved Indie.
-
90Unlike their inspirations, they've ditched the Marxist polemics in favor of dance-driven ambiguous tales of fumbled romance. [Jun 2004, p.84]
-
90The most musically rich, catchy, smartly written "new new wave" record since Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights.
-
90This is a terrifically exciting debut, imbued with a zest, energy and songwriting flair that warrants -- perhaps even commands -- some sort of attention.
-
In a few tracks, you sense this band is still at the mercy of influences as it searches for its identity, but the best moments are wonderfully promising.
-
80It won't usher in a bold new era where boys are boys and bands play guitars, but there is more than enough here to chew over and enjoy.
-
80Insanely catchy and perfect for singing along with.
-
Short of getting into a time portal and hurling yourself back to the late 70s, this is the closest you will get that sound in 2004.
-
80The songs feel like they're boiling over, there's so much heat under them. [Mar 2004, p.95]
-
80The band's debut struts and flirts like the best-looking guy at the bar. [Apr 2004, p.126]
-
Franz Ferdinand reveals more depth and more new directions than their previous work suggested.
-
80The most ebullient British debut since Elastica. [Mar 2004, p.102]
-
80No affectation, no pandering to fashion, just good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. How refreshing.
-
80Quick, breezy and fun.
-
Remarkable for its excellence and not its originality.
-
However great the merits of their debut might be, one can’t help but feel that there’s something just a little too perfect about Franz Ferdinand, as though they had planned out hipster world-domination around a scientifically constructed chart of "what’s hot and what’s not."
-
75What sets Franz Ferdinand apart is their unapologetic adherence to the pop formula.
-
70If you can distance yourself enough to judge Franz Ferdinand on its merits alone, it’s an impressive yet inconsistent debut record from a promising young band.
-
For once, the inevitable U.K.-press hype is justified: Franz Ferdinand's debut draws from beloved Brit pop and post-punk bands without the usual plagiarism.
-
Piece everything together and this is where your mouth might, quite rightly, start to drool a little.
-
Where the album stumbles is in its inconsistency, with some rather uninteresting filler that doesn't do much but flesh out the album.
-
The album is largely content to hover around the one note it plays so well. [24 Mar 2004]
-
Frantic and rhythmic Scotpop with many echoes of so-'90s Blur in the sardonic jabs at middle-class bromides.
-
Franz Ferdinand's music possesses an intriguing, passive-aggressive kind of wasted elegance that never quite pays off.
prev
next
Page:
- 1
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 125 out of 145
-
Mixed: 8 out of 145
-
Negative: 12 out of 145
-
VitoV10Perfect.
-
8
-
3