Among my favourite bands, Franz Ferdinand are among the most frustrating. Their debut is one of the best albums ever made; their second and third albums have islands of excellence amid fairly average surrounding songs. After each successive album release I have to wait an age in anticipation of what I hope to be the band's redemption. With the fourth album having an incredibly vague release date of some point, eventually, perhaps I'd all but given up hope.
Then I discovered that album to fill the Franz Ferdinand-shaped hole, and it comes from none other than Nick McCarthy, FF's guitarist. His band, Box Codax, are brilliant and virtually unknown. I've complied a crash course for your aural entertainment, courtesy YouTube.
Dawning: an acoustic version of Seven Silvers that's even better than the original.
Choco Pudding: There is a general trend running throughout Box Codax videos - they're all mad.
I Won't Come Back: featuring - a cat; a creepy Leonardo Di Caprio lookalike; suits.
Hellabuster: more silliness, this time on a mountainside
I'll stop there, but I think most of their songs are on YouTube.
Okay, there's only the barest hint of Franz Ferdinand in there, but that's more or less an irrelevance because the songs stand up so well by themselves. The album is called Hellabuster, and it's a cracker. Anyway, with the songs above there's not much left for me to say, enjoy xoxoxoxo
P.S Band Awareness #3? What happened to #1 and #2 I hear you ask. I decided that the Detektivbyran post from earlier in the year and Everything Everything post from last year constitute parts 1 and 2.
