There’s nothing new in cooking up a dub version of your hit album, but Franz Ferdinand do it better than most, employing Mad Professor prodigy Dan Carey to do the honours.
Originally conceived as a strictly limited, vinyl-only edition of 500 copies to be available on Record Store Day in April, the boys have made this set commercially available with an extra track, Be Afraid – a version of Dream Again.
Nothing much has changed with the opening blast of Feel the Pressure, Die on the Floor and The Vaguest of Feeling (aka What She Came For, Can’t Stop Feeling and Live Alone), but by the time Turn it on is reinvented as If I Can’t Have You Then Nobody Can you’re deep down in the dub stuff. It reaches its spaciest on Send Him Away, which could cause serious wooziness.
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