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Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand

David Sinclair, The Times, 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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