![]() ![]() The drummer, Paul Thomson, says "We wrote with Higgins for a while and initially we thought we'd work more with him but it didn't really work out. Franz Ferdinand was supposed to record the album with producer Brian Higgins, yet in March 2008, the two entities parted ways. And when I say life, I mean life off the road, because I wouldn't classify life on the road as real life." įranz Ferdinand began working on Tonight in early 2007. He voices, "This time we wanted to spend more time developing, and also, I suppose, allowing songs and sounds to evolve more before we ended up writing an album, and absorbing more music and ideas and, I suppose, life itself. The out-of-use Govan Town Hall was used by the band as a recording studioĪlthough having written about eight songs while on tour in 2005, Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy decided to write new music because they wanted the album to be ".quite new, to be quite different sounding from everything we've ever done before." Despite having recorded their second album in a short amount of time, Kapranos stressed that the band wanted to take their time. A remix album composed of dub versions of most tracks from Tonight, titled Blood, was released on 18 April 2009. ![]() Five official singles were released to promote the album: " Ulysses", " No You Girls", " Can't Stop Feeling", " What She Came For", and "Live Alone". Tonight received generally favourable reviews from music critics and had a positive commercial performance, peaking at number two on the UK Albums Chart, number nine on the US Billboard 200, and charting in the top ten in several other countries. The cover art was inspired by 1940s and 50s crime scene photographs, particularly ones taken by New York City-based photographer Weegee. They also took inspiration from dub music and the music of Jamaica and Africa while recording. The album has more of a dance-oriented sound, featuring dance-punk, new wave, and electropop throughout, marking a departure from the band's post-punk sound, which was prominently featured on their past two albums. Tonight has been described as a concept album loosely based around a night of partying and the morning effects after. Writing sessions began in early 2007 and recording took place in 2008 at the town hall of Govan, Scotland, and producer Dan Carey's studio in South London. In contrast to their speedily-recorded second studio album, You Could Have It So Much Better (2005), the band chose to take some time off before recording a new album. ![]() Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (also known as Tonight ) is the third studio album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, released on 26 January 2009 through the Domino Recording Company. ![]()
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