Almost Everything Could Be Forgotten

Franz Ferdinand “Right Action”

I feel a little bad for Franz Ferdinand in that they’ve been a very consistent band over the past decade, but they’re at this sort of awkward phase of their career where they’re taken for granted and tied to a moment for which people aren’t particularly nostalgic right now. But we should not be ungrateful for a song as bouncy and clever as “Right Action” – this is expert-level groovy rock, pitched halfway between The Kinks and Duran Duran. The lyrics are fantastic too, sung from the perspective of a man who keeps getting drawn back to someone who may or may not be his ex because he’s sticking to the positive thinking mantra “right thoughts, right words, right action” in the hope that good intentions will somehow make everything work out, despite evidence to the contrary.

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