- indie rock, new wave, art rock, post-punk revival
- 55 min
- 16 tracks
- Domino
Franz Ferdinand is the debut studio album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, first released on 9 February 2004 through the Domino Recording Company. It was recorded during 2003 at Gula Studios in Malmö, Sweden, with Tore Johansson, who produced the majority of the album, with two tracks produced by the band themselves.
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Character
Spare, cool, classical in form and grave.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Metacritic 87/100
- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- The Guardian5/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- NME9/10
- Pitchfork9.1/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Uncut5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Jacqueline3:49
- 2Tell Her Tonight2:18
- 3Take Me Out3:57
- 4The Dark of the Matinée4:03
- 5Auf Achse4:20
- 6Cheating on You2:37
- 7This Fire4:15
- 8Darts of Pleasure2:60
- 9Michael3:21
- 10Come on Home3:46
- 1140′3:24
- 1This Fffire3:35
- 2Van Tango3:26
- 3Shopping for Blood3:35
- 4All for You, Sophia2:59
- 5Words So Leisured2:20
16 tracks, 55 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Franz Ferdinand
- Label
- Domino
- Released
- 2004
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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