And today, we learn that they like sparks so much that theyve gone ahead and started a band with them. Rohan said, it clearly says franz ferdinand and sparks, buddy. Glasgows artdamaged rock quartet franz ferdinand named for the austrohungarian archduke whose murder sparked world war i feature bassist bob hardy, guitarist nick mccarthy, drummer paul thomson, and singerguitarist alex kapranos. Ffs, the franz ferdinand and sparks collaboration, is absolutely, undeniably brilliant. The official music video for the song was uploaded to youtube on 19 may 201. Apr 01, 2015 last month, we learned that all four members of franz ferdinand had teamed up with sparks, the culty, idiosyncratic 70s group who served as an inspiration to them, to form a new band called ffs. This account has reached the download cap, additional downloads.
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Als sparks fan kannte ich franz ferdinand nur vom namen her, aber diese cd. Easy to say, easy to pronounce and full of history. Directed, animated, and handdrawn by chintis lundgren. Our journalism is free and open for all, but its made possible thanks to. You start off deferential, and strangely reverential and eventually, youll need the dalai lama to mediate, between all the patronising, agonising, navelgazing and differences in work ethic. The fans did not have to wait for sparks following creation for a long time. Ffs is available on cd, vinyl and as a digital download itunes and amazon mp3. Download torrent mp3 320 kbps 0s blog comments powered by disqus. Franz joseph i was the emperor of austria almost 200 years later, he now shares his name with a messaging app that, just like him, is at home in the beautiful city of vienna. The combo of sparks and franz ferdinand is seamless and magical. You start off deferential, and strangely reverential and eventually, youll need the dalai lama to mediate, between all the patronising. Franz ferdinand and sparks team up 10 years after the initial seed was.
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Both bands have proven to prioritize innovation over most everything else in recent years, without losing any trademark groove or sincerity. The voice of russell is very recognisable in his falsetto and any sparks fan would immediately pick out this song as typically sparks. Online shopping from a great selection at music store. The members of franz ferdinand have been fans of sparks, whose. Wrong, as ffs is one of the strongest albums of either bands career. Franz ferdinand are making an album with veteran synth rockers sparks, nme can reveal sparks keyboardist ron mael told nme that the two bands have been working together since they met in san. Franz ferdinand and sparks working on joint album nme. Very much a new project, ffs doesnt truly sound like either band, but a striking and fascinating mutation. Their formation was announced on march 9, 2015, but the two bands had been recording since at least the mid2000s. It is simultaneously a perfect sparks and a perfect franz ferdinand album, only better. Well ahead of the release date, the current s david safar connected with franz ferdinand front man alex kapranos, who talked about the forthcoming record and what went into the making of it, and about what he loves about coming to minneapolis to perform.
The track started with 10,000 downloads sold in the week ending. The real motivation was to make something new, not franz featuring russell mael, or sparks with franz ferdinand backing them, says alex kapranos of franz ferdinand. The new franz ferdinand album always ascending, out now. Ffs an abbreviation of franz ferdinand and sparks is a supergroup consisting of the members of the aforementioned bands. The members of franz ferdinand and sparks will join forces to become ffs, a new supergroup, as nme reports. Ffs is the only studio album by scottishamerican supergroup ffs, consisting of members from the scottish band franz ferdinand and the american band sparks. The seed of ffs a unique collaboration between franz ferdinand and sparks was sown around the time of franzs debut album when word got back to the maels that the band were big sparks fans. These songs are inspired, evenhanded combinations of all of their strengths, whether ron and russell mael lend a dash of weirdness to franz ferdinand s spiky hooks, as on call girl, or the glaswegian outfit adds some heft to sparks flights of fancy on the satirical police encounters or the hyperactive so desu ne. Ffs ffs franz ferdinand and sparks flac tnt download via torrent. Mar 10, 2015 classic rockers sparks have come together with franz ferdinand to form the group ffs for an album and a series of dates this summer. There is a tour coming, an inevitable reexamination of the respective glories of the legacies of. The song was released as the lead single from the groups eponymous debut studio album on april 2015.
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