- Record Label: Domino
- Release Date: Aug 27, 2013
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Oct 4, 2013Not a song sticks. It's sheer style that carries this disc, albeit one that sounds great.
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Sep 23, 2013Last year’s stellar Battle Born, felt considerably more vibrant than Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action ever does.
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MagnetSep 19, 2013This fourth outing puts to bed both Tonight's frantic lonerism as well as any notion of a second night out with Alex Kapranos' equal-opportunity, Jacqueline-and-Michael seducer. [No. 102, p.56]
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Sep 12, 2013Even ignoring the tectonic shifts in music over the past decade, this is by no means a novel or inventive album.
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Sep 11, 2013The experimental mindset is evident in moments of Right Thoughts, but only a select few, and like Tonight, it’s most prominent on the last few tracks.
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Sep 4, 2013It’s an album surprisingly even in its delivery, if a little underwhelming in content, somewhat reserved and unquestionably safe.
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Aug 29, 2013Right Action finds Franz Ferdinand embracing their seductive musical strengths, but this time, the usually emotionally charged tracks drenched in lust, loathing and sarcasm are replaced with lyrics blessed by the priceless gift of hindsight.
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Aug 29, 2013RTRWRA neatly combines those familiar chantable choruses, punchy guitars, pleasant harmonies and simple, clever lyricism--all in all, a great vehicle for that smooth, too cool croon of singer Alex Kapranos.
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Aug 29, 2013Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action is a welcome return, fusing a crowd-pleasing sound with some of Franz Ferdinand's most interesting songwriting. Track for track, it may very well be the group's most satisfying album yet.
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Aug 29, 2013All those disparate styles and references should logically clash, yet here they flow seamlessly. By Franz standards, it's relaxed. Believe it or not, it's also compact and concise.
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Aug 28, 2013It’s a tap on the shoulder, a reminder, or a nostalgic look back that this collective works best at providing kitschy, alternative dance anthems for millennials hellbent on shaking it to something more organic.
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Aug 27, 2013Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is a fiendish and fun record.
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Aug 27, 2013It’s an album that tries not to shout ‘old school Franz are back’, even though it unmistakably signals that old school Franz are back.
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Aug 27, 2013They return sounding hungry for blood, with all their twin-guitar glam-punk strut.
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Aug 27, 2013By expanding its worldview, Franz Ferdinand has very nicely settled onto a path toward career longevity.
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Aug 27, 2013Ultimately Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is the work of a band too settled in their ways and perhaps nervous of straying too far from what they know to ever truly be loved.
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Aug 26, 2013Its fourth studio album keeps the glitter ball spinning.
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Aug 26, 2013This is a staggering return to form for the Glaswegian quartet, the sound of Franz Ferdinand coming home after a four year long absence--with the right thoughts, the right words, and the right album.
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Aug 26, 2013This is the album for people who used to be Franz Ferdinand fans but strayed. It gives them a reason to come back.
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Aug 26, 2013While Right Words achieves a baseline level of quality or at least competency with the exception of “Goodbye Friends and Lovers” and "Love Illumination", they lack the conviction to take most of their lesser ideas to the realm of being unpleasant rather than kinda boring.
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Aug 26, 2013A solid if uneven combination of tight, compact punkish rompers and meandering light rock offerings.
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Aug 26, 2013After an average third LP and a four-year hiatus, the art-rockers are once again all kinds of excellent.
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Aug 26, 2013It's only later that you realise Franz Ferdinand's fourth isn't just a return to form but a tuneful meditation on death, decay and the void.
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Aug 23, 2013Largely, Right Thoughts is business as usual--a steady, reliable and often invigorating business, but one that constantly, frustratingly hints that it’s capable of more.
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Aug 23, 2013Franz Ferdinand's Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is an unapologetically swaggering disco-rock album that refuses to overstay its welcome.
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Aug 23, 2013In a year already host to some brilliant albums, it seems tired and dated.
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Aug 23, 2013Kapranos and co have delivered what is simultaneously ‘just another Franz Ferdinand’ album and one of the indie records of the summer.
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Aug 23, 2013This is a return to form for Franz Ferdinand; they've indeed retrieved the right thoughts and words to create a dynamic new set of pop hits in-the-making.
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Aug 23, 2013Larceny and sharp, immediate hooks permeate everything they do, and so it is with Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action.
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Aug 22, 2013These lyrics are all...wordy.
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Aug 22, 2013It sounds precisely like what it is: a very straightforward Franz Ferdinand record.
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Aug 21, 2013While there are individual moments that are up there with the band’s best, Right Thoughts falls short of the return to form the opening tracks suggest.
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Aug 21, 2013Their fourth album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is a thumping beast full of deliberate, sudden movements and big melodies.
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Q MagazineAug 20, 2013It's an album that more than makes up for Franz Ferdinand's extended absence. [Sep 2013, p.96]
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Aug 20, 2013Franz Ferdinand have done what they didn’t quite manage on Tonight, combining their more experimental leanings with their irresistible dance-punk sound to create right thoughts, right words, right action, right album.
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Aug 12, 2013it’s evident enough that Franz Ferdinand are masters at crafting stylish, guitar-driven anthems. Right Thoughts affirms this expertise, and is a very danceable fourth LP.
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UncutAug 12, 2013Producers Todd Terje and Bjorn Yttling help effect a subtle but distinct shift, without sacrificing FF's Identity. [Sep 2013, p.89]
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Alternative PressAug 12, 2013Their fourth album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is just as resolute as the title. [Sep 2013, p.88]
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MojoAug 12, 2013There's no great leap forward here but the spring in their step is unmistakeable. [Sep 2013, p.87]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 95 out of 110
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Mixed: 11 out of 110
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Negative: 4 out of 110
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