I am so grateful that they had Changes or Rolled Gold. I think of my parents’ record collection as a kid. I have friends who believe you’re somehow not a “real” fan if you own a best of rather than a discography. We also added two new songs, recorded last year: Billy Goodbye and Curious, both co-produced at the last stage with Stuart Price. That means obvious singles, but also songs you know have a special meaning for both band and audience like Outsiders. "It's the same as writing a set-list for a festival: you want to play the songs you know people want to hear. Talking about the process of picking tracks for the album, lead singer Alex Kapranos said: It is a convenient and impressive collection of stellar tracks for fans.Armed with an astute sense of what constitutes the ‘classic pop song’ (famously proclaiming that they write music ‘to make girls dance to’) the music of Franz Ferdinand continues to resonate globally and over the course of nearly two decades they’ve become, commercially and critically, one of the biggest UK bands in the world, selling over 10 million albums, 1.2 billion streams to date, 14 platinum albums, winning Brit, Ivor Novello + Mercury Prize awards, Grammy nominations and selling 6 million tickets for their incendiary live show worldwide. The release is an excellent overview of the band’s career for the uninitiated, providing a guided tour of the last two decades. Hits to the Head does exactly what a “best of hits” compilation should do it makes you want to pull out all your Franz Ferdinand albums or stack up a streaming playlist and give them another play.
The two new tracks prove the band has lost none of their ability to write a catchy tune. The band members now entering their third-decade offer up a winning track representing their proprietary blend melded to an early 60’s Beatles influence, providing a kind of dissipated innocence. The last track, “Billy Goodbye,” is a stomper and precisely what you would expect from Franz Ferdinand. The eternal question addressed is the “will they,won’t they” of the two people in the narrative. “Curious” contains all the swagger that has always marked the band’s motif. Overall, the release is a fantastic walk through their discography with two slices of new sonics on offer with “Curious and Billy Goodbye”. Tracks like “Michael, Lucid Dream and Standing on the Horizon” are a sample of just some that satisfy that category. The band also includes faves that don’t always make it on the top 10 lists, along with the big hits. They artfully create a musical world filled with down at the club antics and challenging romances, all the while accurately describing the excitement of pursuing love and experiences within that situation. Much of this can be credited to the distinctive sonics signature the band has always created, melding Indie Rock, Post Punk Revival, Dance Punk, Dance Rock and Art Rock.
Hits to the Head offers up the biggest songs of their career, chart-toppers like “Darts of Pleasure, Take Me Out, This Fire, Ulysses” and numerous others that remind the listener why Franz Ferdinand is still cranking out songs twenty years after their creation. There are twenty tracks with 18 existing tracks and two new songs to sweeten the twenty-track offering. Set with the task of giving an overview of their career for Hits to the Head, the band, as described by lead singer Alex Kapranos, stated, “…it was like picking out a setlist for a concert”, and what a list. Over five studio albums, they have succeeded and, along the way, garnered platinum albums and numerous awards, including a 2004 Mercury Prize, an Ivor Novello award and a few BRIT awards.
This characteristic is represented by the band’s long-established goal to write classic pop songs that make the girls and boys dance.
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The release is chocked full of what has made the band so successful for twenty years, exuberant sonic pragmatism. The award-winning Scottish band Franz Ferdinand is releasing their greatest hits album, Hits to the Head, on March 11 th.
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