Albums · Skopia

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4 records

Franz Ferdinand

2004

The band said they wanted to make records girls could dance to, and rehearsed in a derelict Glasgow warehouse they had taken over.

★ 2.3

1981

John Taylor's bass carries the tunes the way a lead guitar normally would, which is what separates this from the synth-pop around it.

★ 4.0

1982

The videos were shot in Sri Lanka and Antigua on a yacht, which was the point. Patrick Nagel painted the woman on the sleeve.

★ 5.9

1980

Most of it is built on a single chord that never changes, with the interest coming entirely from layers of interlocking rhythm.

★ 8.8