June
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Franz Ferdinand + Madden '09 = "Katherine Kiss Me"
Story by Matt Kivel
There's been a lot of buzz going around about Franz Ferdinand's new material. The Scottish quartet has posted some samples online and announced that their first single will debut on EA sports' forthcoming mega-hit Madden '09. For the media, it's been an endless game of speculation with outlets offering various predictions as to what "new sound" Franz is likely to employ.
The new issue of Rolling Stone poses "afro pop" as a possibility, but it seems that publication is still suffering from a severe case of Vampire Weekend fever (glancing through the reviews page I spotted a suspiciously large helping of references to afro-pop and world beat) ... so the legitimacy is suspect.
In this situation, it's best to let the music do the talking ... so here's a video (with some iffy sound quality) of the soon-to-be Madden soundtracking "Katherine Kiss Me." It employs the same sort of tense-funk riffage that was Franz's bread and butter for their first two albums and sort of makes all the "new direction" talk seem silly ... though a few demos from the band's site surfaced recently, and those do mark some significant sonic changes in the group's sound ... I guess we'll just have to wait for the finished product.
"Katherine Kiss Me" June 9, 2008 - London
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