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How are you? I have a very quick question for you before we all have a lovely holiday weekend:<br>
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<b>ARE YOU REVIEWING THE FRANZ FERDINAND ALBUM “RIGHT THOUGHTS, RIGHT WORDS, RIGHT ACTION”?</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">It’s out next week (on Domino) and we have great photos if you need ‘em. We also have downloads and CDs. The album is currently streaming on
<b><i>NPR Music’s First Listen</i></b> here: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/08/19/210175096/first-listen-franz-ferdinand-right-thoughts-right-words-right-action">
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/19/210175096/first-listen-franz-ferdinand-right-thoughts-right-words-right-action</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">So far this “come back” album has been getting rave reviews worldwide. Click below for the video to first single “<b>Right Action</b>” (currently playing somewhere on your radio dial) and/or the link to their
recent CBS <b><i>Live On Letterman</i></b> webcast. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">“<b>Right Action</b>” video: <a href="http://youtu.be/RqTsUtQLRFk">
http://youtu.be/RqTsUtQLRFk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">It’s been four years since everyone’s favorite Scottish guitar band released anything and they have clearly been sorely missed:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">“These Scottish boys banged out three of the past decade’s most dazzling rock albums in one five-year rush… they return sounding hungry for blood, with all their twin-guitar glam-punk strut.” –
<b><i>Rolling Stone</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#111111;background:white">“It's the Glaswegian dance-rock ambassadors' best work since their 2004 arrival: Confident and freshly energized, </span><em><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Right
Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action</span></em><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#111111;background:white"> captures the ease of pressure that comes with knowing that a decade-old band can't be co-opted as a cool new thing. It's a sound that should never
go out of style…So here's to a Cher-like run of triumphant returns, in which Franz Ferdinand comes back each decade with hits engineered to remind us of the joy of rock n' roll.” –
<b><i>NPR<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#111111;background:white">“Franz remain in robust good health.” 4/5<b> -<i> Mojo
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#111111;background:white">“An album that might be their best yet.” 8/10 –<b><i> NME<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#111111;background:white">“When they’re firing on all cylinders like this, they can stimulate both the intellect and sould like few bands alive.” 4/5<b><i> – Q<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#111111;background:white">“Franz Ferdinand haven’t aged in nine years, whereas I’ve put on about two stone and had my face melted by the merciless hairdryer of time. It’s not fair, but then the fact that Franz are still going
strong doesn’t seem fair to many of the now-defunct noughties-peers who rode on their coat-tails, from whichever particular branch of Subway they’re now working. Ten years into a career that began with an unimpeachably brilliant, inescapable pop song that
ought to have eclipsed everything they’ve done since, Franz are still very much alive.”<b><i>- The Quietus
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