An end we saw it at the "Brit Pop" divagant such a duck without a head, and a healthy return to the kind of youthful cockiness UK we love. Alex Kapranos, 41 in 2013 according to wikipedia France viewed today (so not too "juvenile" in terms of civil status), the success of this project came as a miracle after long galleys.
The 2nd LP 'You Could Have It So Much Better' (2005) came as a confirmation of the first, less the effect of surprise and perhaps with less shine.
The 3rd LP, 'Tonight' (2009), a "double" on heavy cardboard sleeve in the vinyl version, which put the time to come, alas sealed the rest of enthusiasm which existed for the group.
Fast forward to 2013, the time that the quartet indulges in a little repositioning, and here 'Right Thoughts (...)', carefully with a CD "in public" in the presentation that I purchased.
What to say? Well, that FF "is the trade" fleeting moment by giving the impression of being returned to its original shape. At best, this sounds like the Kaiser Chiefs in less pop at worst, as some contemporary groups discs (Maximo Park?) Almost forgotten today.
'Right Action', as uptempo, is a nice appetizer but desperately in search of a riff, a hook, something catchy that we do remember. 'Evil Eye' Madness evokes in his career milieu, but without saxophone. 'Love Enlightenment' has a riff on an uptempo pace a little stiff. No "gégène" but the presence of a chorus is more to justify a reprint as single. 'Stand On The Horizon' brings a little quiet at first, then turns disco half and half swaying rhythm. Overall interesting title however is poor because they have retained a guideline. 'Fresh Strawberries' is a pop ballad that turns (some) rock'n'roll midterm.
'Bullet' is a pop-rock hopping as fast rhythm that gives a bit of interest. 'Treason! Animals. ' offers a guitar rif and located in the continuity of his immediate predecessor for the rest until insisting / threatening final. 'The Expanded Universe' provides a tape played in reverse as an introduction and does not mark for the future. 'Brief Encounters' synthesizer begins and continues without printing in your neurons on a swaying rhythm. 'Goodbye Lovers & Friends' puts an end to all this (just 35 minutes of listening) on a pop mode, but rather "prog", right?
The booklet lets take a look at the words. Overall, anything likely to be worth one day the Nobel Literature Prize ...
*** Barely
The CD presents in public 47'11 "eight of the 10 songs plus some studio" classics "but not of 'Take Me Out'. 'Can not Stop Feeling' quotes the legendary 'I Feel Love' by Donna SUMMER (and Giorgio MORODER). The concert ends with the two most pop selections studio album, 'Love Illumination' and 'Stand On The Horizon'.
*** 1/2
The presentation of all, in a cardboard fold wallet with nice group photo in B & W on the inside, is commendable.
