Blood (Franz Ferdinand album)

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Released 1 June 2009 Length 38:24 Release date 1 June 2009 Label Domino Recording Company		Recorded 2008 Artist Franz Ferdinand Producer Dan Carey

Blood (2009) iTunes Festival London 2009 (2009) Genres Indie rock, Dub, Dance-punk Similar Franz Ferdinand albums, Indie rock albums

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Blood (also known as Blood: Franz Ferdinand) is a compilation album of dub music versions of songs from Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, the third studio album from Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. It was released in June 2009 through Domino Records. In addition, a limited edition vinyl version of 500 copies were sent to independent record stores in the United States to coincide with Record Store Day.

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Origins and conception

Like Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, Blood is the result of Franz Ferdinand's recording sessions with producer Dan Carey in 2008. It was originally packaged in the deluxe and box-set versions of Tonight: Franz Ferdinand that were available in January 2009 in Europe only. The separately packaged version of Blood released worldwide features one additional song, "Be Afraid", which is a reworked version of "Dream Again". All of the track titles are taken from lyrics from the original songs, with the exception of "Katherine Hit Me" whose title refers to lyrics from both "No You Girls" and "Katherine Kiss Me".

The songs that were not remixed are "Bite Hard", "Lucid Dreams", and "Katherine Kiss Me".

Musical style

Talking about the album and the work of producer Dan Carey, frontman Alex Kapranos stated: "He's coming from that Jamaican perspective — there's much more space; the bass guitar leads a lot more on this record than anything else." This is in reference to the genre choice of Blood which "evolved from reggae, and centers on instrumental remixes of existing recordings".