"I found a new way, baby," Alex Kapranos snarls on Ulysses, Tonight's lead single and opening track, and he's almost right. Franz Ferdinand took awhile to record this album after releasing You Could Have It So Much Better as quickly as possible after their breakthrough debut, spending a couple of years coming up with the concept of a "dirty pop" album and trying out dance and pop producers like Erol Alkan and Girls Aloud sound-shapers Xenomania before settling on Dan Carey, who has worked with everyone from CSS to Kylie Minogue. The group tried hard to make these songs a deliberate break from their previous music, and the album is nothing if not deliberate: a concept album about a debauched night out and the morning after, Tonight is more focused than You Could Have It So Much Better, and on the surface, it sounds different than what came before. The band's normally de rigueur angular post-punk guitars are dialed down in favor of beats, bass, and lots of keyboards, all of which are on display on Ulysses, which, like You Could Have It So Much Better's Do You Want To?, initially sounds like an odd single choice, then makes perfect sense after a few listens. Kapranos whispers like a devil on your shoulder as the band takes its time building to disco-punk euphoria.

1		Ulysses
2		Turn It On
3		No You Girls
4		Send Him Away
5		Twilight Omens
6		Bite Hard
7		What She Came For
8		Live Alone
9		Can't Stop Feeling
10		Lucid Dreams
11		Dream Again
12		Katherine Kiss Me