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Jan 8, 2025Alex Kapranos is on typically droll, playful lyrical form, too, grounding the record in Franz tradition, but the sound of ‘The Human Fear’ suggests a band still brimming with ambition.
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Jan 13, 2025With their 2022 compilation Hits to the Head, Franz Ferdinand proved themselves one of the only 21st century rock bands who could pull off a bona fide greatest-hits album without looking criminally delusional. But the delightful charm of The Human Fear is that this greatest-hits album now sounds incomplete.
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Jan 10, 2025Still shamelessly livin’ it up, with an eyebrow cocked and high kicks galore, ‘The Human Fear’ is – as promised – Franz-y as fuck. You do you, hun; you do it so well.
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MojoJan 3, 2025Franz Ferdinand's first album since 2018's Always Ascending finds them re-invigorated, if not wholly reborn. [Feb 2025, p.88]
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UncutJan 3, 2025It's a deeply fun record that radiates vivacity and, most endearingly, sounds like a band who still truly love what they do. [Jan 2025, p.35]
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Record CollectorJan 3, 2025Serious times call for serious records, which Franz Ferdinand have delivered with their sixth studio album. Well, sort of. Fear in all forms is examined on The Human Fear, but there's still that lightness of touch that marks them out as a band it's fun to dance to. [Jan 2025, p.102]
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Jan 10, 2025It’s not quite Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, but Franz Ferdinand take an expansive approach to their sixth album, and it suits them.
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Jan 10, 2025Franz Ferdinand feel more engaged than they have in some time on The Human Fear. It's some of their most self-assured sounding music, but thanks to its naked emotions and eclectic choices, it's also some of their most human-sounding music. All told, it's a respectable -- but not too respectable -- addition to their body of work.
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Jan 9, 2025Fun, lean, and concise, ‘The Human Fear’ finds Franz Ferdinand looking to the future without any need to panic.
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Classic Rock MagazineJan 3, 2025It's the album's embrace of retro-futurist video arcade electronica on The Doctor and Hooked, verging at times on a lascivious indie Prodigy, that keeps Franz Ferdinand surprising 20 years in. [Feb 2025, p.72]
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Jan 10, 2025The Human Fear isn’t provocative enough to revitalize their reputation, but it certainly won’t do it any harm.