Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
David Sinclair, Times, The, March 2004
AH, THE FIRST HYPE OF SPRING. In media watering holes from Camden to Sauchiehall Street, the tastemakers began sniffing the wind as long ago as last September, when Franz Ferdinand's seductive first single, 'Darts of Pleasure', made a modest chart debut at No 44.
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