Bleep

Domino bring forward this debut LP from a supergroup made up of Franz Ferdinand and Sparks. The groups have been recording together on-and-off since the turn of the new millennium and this self-titled debut is a bold and theatrical curtain-drop on their creative productivity. Johnny Delusional opens the show with Russell Mael of Sparks and Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand playing out a cinematic and almost operatic vocal exchange. The brilliantly ostentatious sound flourishes again and again on the LP. Piss Off rattles along like a mid-trip Beatles number while the new-wave slinkiness of Call Girl evokes a kind of hybrid of The Doors and Cliff Richard. You’ll be hard pushed to find a record sounding like this for another millennium.