Chris's SOTW - Lazy Boy | Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand recapture their iconic guitar-driven groovy sound with their latest single, Lazy Boy, after a small departure from that sound for 2015’s FFS.

On Lazy Boy, singer Alex Kapranos finds a way to make singing about his own inertia as sleazy and seductive as he does when crooning about all the women that frequently inspire the lyrics of Franz Ferdinand’s tracks.

Abandoning the more electro-influenced FFS, Franz Ferdinand loose their trademark off-beat bass and drum groove on the listener at the start of the track before a reverb soaked Kapranos echoes, “I’m a lazy boy.”

A haunting seemingly disturbed keyboard starts plucking high notes, echoing 2013’s Evil Eye with a darker tint to the production. After 16 bars of airy synths, Kapranos and new Franz guitarist, Dino Bardot, engage in a call and response between voice and guitar until Ferdinand’s wild dancing choruses begin and both Bardot and Kapranos converge on each other in a multi-layered sonic assault that you can’t help but rattle around your head walking to class.

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After seeing Franz Ferdinand in 2014 and listening to both Lazy Boy and Ferdinand's other single, Feel the Love Go, I am now eagerly awaiting a future North American tour.