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| Length = 42:25 | Label = | Producer = Dan Carey | Last album = ''You Could Have It So Much Better'' (2005) | This album = ''Tonight: Franz Ferdinand'' (2009) | Next album = ''Blood'' (2009) | Misc = }} ''Tonight: Franz Ferdinand'' (also known simply as ''Tonight'') is the third studio album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand. It was released on 26 January 2009 through Domino Records in the UK and Epic Records in the US. It is the band's first studio album since ''You Could Have It So Much Better'', which was released on 3 October 2005, roughly three and a half years earlier. The album was recorded in a span of two years at Mr. Dan's Studio in Buckeye, Arizona and the old town hall of Govan, Scotland. It is a concept album loosely based around a night of partying and the morning effects after. The album has more of a dance-oriented sound, featuring styles of dance-punk, new wave, and electropop, marking a departure from the band's post-punk sound, which was featured on their past two albums. Upon release, the album received generally favourable reviews from music critics and had a positive commercial performance, peaking at number two on the UK Albums Chart, number nine on the US ''Billboard'' 200, and charting in the top ten in several other countries. Five official singles have been released from the album: "Lucid Dreams", "Ulysses", "No You Girls", "Can't Stop Feeling", and "What She Came For". A remix album, titled ''Blood'', was released on 1 June 2009 and contains dub remixes of most songs from ''Tonight''. ==Recording== Although having written about eight songs while on tour in 2005, Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy decided to write new music because they wanted the album to be "...quite new, to be quite different sounding from everything we've ever done before." Despite having recorded their second album in a short amount of time, Kapranos stressed that the band wanted to take their time. He voices, "This time we wanted to spend more time developing, and also, I suppose, allowing songs and sounds to evolve more before we ended up writing an album, and absorbing more music and ideas and, I suppose, life itself. And when I say life, I mean life off the road, because I wouldn't classify life on the road as real life." Franz Ferdinand began working on ''Tonight'' in early 2007.〔 Franz Ferdinand was supposed to record the album with producer Brian Higgins, yet in March 2008, the two entities parted ways. The drummer, Paul Thomson, says "We wrote with Higgins for a while and initially we thought we'd work more with him but it didn't really work out. We just realized that we're not really a pop group." However, they also commented they have not given up on the pop concept. The songs on the album were written and recorded at the old town hall of Govan, Scotland as well as Mr. Dan's Studio in Buckeye, Arizona.〔 The band first moved in to Govan's old town hall following a year of touring in support of their second studio album and mostly used it for storing and rehearsing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tonight: Franz Ferdinand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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