Franz Ferdinand

These Scottish glam boys know how to work a cheekbone, and they wear the tightest pants in rock & roll. But more important, their album is one killer song after another -- a New Wave guitar attack full of doom ("Take Me Out"), lust ("Michael"), wit ("Darts of Pleasure") and shameless hedonism ("Jacqueline"). If you can't groove to this, you probably died sometime last winter.

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