For your Valentine - Franz Ferdinand's Rock/Pop/Alternative sound is sure to please anyone who is a fan of: The Killers, Kings of Leon, TV on the Radio, Snow Patrol or GlasVegas.

5.0 out of 5 stars
Customer Review:
Their Best Album Yet. More new wave sounding, more synths, more melodic, sexy - their best album yet, beating the second album by miles.

The spark to a revolutionary slew in British and American guitar-based rockers and the blueprint to that retro sound that tore up charts in 2004, Scottish foursome Franz Ferdinand always towered above many of their peers with their concise blasts of tuneful guitar hooks, dance rhythms, and singer Alex Kapranos' wry, irrepressibly clever lyrics. Franz Ferdinand's third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, has been three years in the making, and longtime fans expecting a return to the angular post-punk guitar ricochets of You Could Have It So Much Better and their self-titled debut will be more than a little disappointed with this latest outing. Kapranos himself has stated that Tonight was to be "quite new . . . quite different sounding from everything we've ever done before." This is undoubtedly true, but for all the benefits of evolving, not everything on Tonight is up to the standard of the band's seminal earlier work.

I've never been a glowing fan of Franz Ferdinand. I like, but just whatever. However, I have a floating policy to listen albums that get a 7 plus on pitchfork. This one pulled in at a 7.3. I haven't bought it yet, but I'm listening to some track on MySpace right now and I'm pleasantly grooving to them.

For your Valentine - Franz Ferdinand's Rock/Pop/Alternative sound is sure to please anyone who is a fan of: The Killers, Kings of Leon, TV on the Radio, Snow Patrol or GlasVegas.

5.0 out of 5 stars
Customer Review:
Their Best Album Yet. More new wave sounding, more synths, more melodic, sexy - their best album yet, beating the second album by miles.

The spark to a revolutionary slew in British and American guitar-based rockers and the blueprint to that retro sound that tore up charts in 2004, Scottish foursome Franz Ferdinand always towered above many of their peers with their concise blasts of tuneful guitar hooks, dance rhythms, and singer Alex Kapranos' wry, irrepressibly clever lyrics. Franz Ferdinand's third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, has been three years in the making, and longtime fans expecting a return to the angular post-punk guitar ricochets of You Could Have It So Much Better and their self-titled debut will be more than a little disappointed with this latest outing. Kapranos himself has stated that Tonight was to be "quite new . . . quite different sounding from everything we've ever done before." This is undoubtedly true, but for all the benefits of evolving, not everything on Tonight is up to the standard of the band's seminal earlier work. (via amazon)