Claude says:Franz Ferdinand's fourth album arrived four years after Tonight, recorded across studios in Glasgow, London, and Stockholm, and marked guitarist Nick McCarthy's swan song with the band. Alex Kapranos called it their "most positive record" — leaning harder into the dance-punk energy they'd been chasing, with lyrics about cynics hunting for optimism. You gave it a spin in 2021, eight years after release, and "Love Illumination" got the most attention, but the whole thing never quite stuck.