I'm not sure if I'd recommend Franz Ferdinad to anyone over 30. Their songs are rocky and catchy and witty and very well-executed, and a lot of them on the album stand out as radio-quality, but I do find it a bit facile at times. You can listen to a FF song once and then hum it. Where's the difficulty in that? The slight Joy Division influence is good, as is the air of louche (1) refined arty decadence. But fundamentally it's pretentious airy pop-rock, only mock-serious.


1) I looked up "louche" – it means what I thought it meant.