Dancing Bares risk.

Lange have made rar Franz Ferdinand - now surprised the Scottish band with the principle of electro and a pinch of funk rock. The Boss is back, with 60 Bruce Springsteen remains the mainstream rock. A sound check from the Uniblogs editors.

 

FRANZ FERDINAND / Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

For weeks it has "Ulysses", the advance single, the top places in the
Campus Charts gemütlich done - a reference to the great expectations that the fans in the third album by the band from Glasgow, "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand", set.

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You will not be disappointed: As on the excellent predecessors "Franz Ferdinand" (2004) and "You Could Have It So Much Better" (2005) sound Alex Kapranos, Nicholas McCarthy, Paul Thomson and Robert Hardy as one in the here and now catapulted Wave rock band of the eighties.

Nevertheless, "Tonight" is not a brew of old. The principle of electric have now also discovered the Scots and inferior "Ulysses" and "Turn It On" with dark synth Gegrummel and background effects, the overall picture is less disturbing than refine, and in songs like the dancefloor-compatible "No You Girls" for a genre-jumping rock to funk and disco Prince brand make.

But dancing was Franz Ferdinand has always been, now it is also the largest Ignorant remember. And who can have something against a bow before the late Beatles with "Twilight Omens"? Against a Avance to Blondie with "Live Alone"? A punky "Bite Hard"? A sleepy lullaby ( "Dream Again")? Her damit.

Franz Ferdinand goes into each of the twelve songs a risk, and very successful. So "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand" perhaps not their best, but the boldest and most versatile album, with many great surprises. One of the first highlights of the Pop-2009.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN / "Working on a Dream"

Respekt! It is not often that the opening song of an album after the first play immediately once again wants to hear - "Outlaw Pete" by Bruce Springsteen Teens new disc "Working on a Dream" is a: a achtminütiges magnum opus, a dramatically orchestrated stadium panoramic around one of the most striking voices in rock history. A strong piece, even though the basic theme of "I Was Made for Loving You" is reminiscent of Kiss.

"My Lucky Day," "What Love Can Do" and the quieter "Working on a Dream" and "Queen of the Super Market" on the other hand, are traditional, but the boss pure blues, folk and rock'n'roll. Also, he forgets the country with "Tomorrow Never Knows" is not.

Overall, "Working on a Dream" classic, perhaps even old-fashioned U.S. Mainstream Rock, but the passion. The man this year is already 60th You do not want to believe.