“Right Action” by Franz Ferdinand

"Right Action" was the first taste of Franz Ferdinand's fourth album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, arriving in the summer of 2013, and it finds the Scottish band back on the wiry, funk-bitten guitar that makes a chorus impossible to shake. Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor produced it, Mark Ralph recorded it and Dave Fridmann mixed it, and the writing credit goes to Bob Hardy, Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy.

Jonas Odell, who had made the band's "Take Me Out" video, directed this one too, dropping them into a similar graphic world and splashing the words across the screen as they sing. It was a modest hit rather than a smash, reaching number 28 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and number 22 on the Japan Hot 100.

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