You Could Have It So Much Better (20th Anniversary Edition)

Two decades ago, Franz Ferdinand followed up their seminal debut album with You Could Have It So Much Better, and to celebrate Domino are now reissuing it on limited edition orange vinyl. Blending art-indie influences with a fresh take on britpop songwriting it made for a hook-filled album with just the right amount of angular bite. - Flying Out

You Could Have It So Much Better is the hugely anticipated second album from Franz Ferdinand. After setting the world alight with their self titled debut album, the boys didn't hang around too long before getting started on the follow up. Recorded in Scotland and New York the bands style has matured and developed. It blends the familiar art-indie influences - Josef K, Orange Juice, and The Fire Engines with an increasingly bold take on classic britpop songcraft - The Kinks and The Beatles. The songs are better, the playing is better and the production is better. The sound is still unmistakably Franz Ferdinand but they've tapped into something deeper and more resonant from the moving epic Walk Away to the stomp of first single Do You Want To. It's a bigger, bolder and without doubt better album.

Tracklist

1. The Fallen
2. Do You Want To
3. This Boy
4. Walk Away
5. Evil And A Heathen
6. You're The Reason I'm Leaving
7. Eleanor Put Your Boots On
8. Well That Was Easy
9. What You Meant
10. I'm Your Villain
11. You Could Have It So Much Better
12. Fade Together
13. Outsiders