Franz Ferdinand's new album, The Human Fear, marks a shift towards a more middle-aged sound. While retaining their signature sharp riffs, the album leans towards sweeping choruses and 70s glam influences, sacrificing some of their former youthful edge for a more mature tone.
Alex Kapranos and co are finally acting their age, but have lost their cool in the processor the most part, British indie-mania of the 00s involved a slew of sixth-form poets holding forth over amateurishly jerky guitars: the results were often simultaneously brilliant and deeply cringeworthy. Somehow,managed to establish themselves as a tent pole of the scene while wholly bypassing the awkward young upstart vibe.
If Franz Ferdinand were the grownups back then, 20 years on they’re positively avuncular. The Human Fear – their sixth album, and first since 2018 – feels markedly middle-aged in tone. Despite opener Audacious kicking off with Kapranos muttering about the disintegration of reality over a pleasingly grainy riff, the song then slows into the kind of sweeping, plodding chorus you could imagine Take That crooning on a teatime chatshow.
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