It’s a brilliant collection, frenetic and intricate, with unusual subject matter including the self-explanatory Dictator’s Son and the cheeky seduction of policemen’s wives (Police Encounters). All six members are describing it as a debut, with the intimation of more to come, even though the penultimate track on this album of arch, artful pop is called Collaborations Don’t Work. ![]() It has been a good couple of years for cross-generational collaborations: Daft Punk and Nile Rodgers struck gold with Get Lucky, Todd Rundgren and Lindstrøm’s Runddans has been a critical smash, and now there’s FFS: the band and the self-titled record. As for the 69-year-old Ron, with his jet-black hair and seemingly crayoned-on moustache, there is little change from the cartoonish creation alleged to have caused John Lennon to turn away, baffled, from that TOTP performance and declare: “It’s Hitler on the telly!” Russell, at 66, retains much of the androgynous flamboyance that made his first Top of the Pops appearance – for 1974’s No 2 hit This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us – such a shock-and-awe experience. An upstairs room in a London pub might be an unremarkable place to meet the Franz frontman and the Sparks pair on the occasion of their union, but there is nothing unremarkable about the brothers. ![]() ![]() O MG, it’s FFS! Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, dressed in a suit, has something of the well-turned-out indie dandy about him, but Ron and Russell Mael look spectacular.
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