[6] Recorded in both New York City and their own studio in Glasgow with producer Rich Costey, the album spawned four UK top 30 singles: "Do You Want To", "The Fallen", "Walk Away" and "Eleanor Put Your Boots On."

[7] The album's cover art is inspired by the works of Alexander Rodchenko, the Russian avant-garde photographer and collage pioneer.

The song "You're the Reason I'm Leaving" is believed to be a dual-meaning track; it can be read as a typical relationship-centered song, but also as being a lighthearted political commentary on the rivalry between the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Chancellor of the Exchequer) Gordon Brown (who would later succeed Blair as prime minister).

"Number ten" here refers to 10 Downing Street, the address of the UK Prime Minister.

Four years was the typical length of a parliament before five-year fixed term legislation was passed in 2011.

[9] Nitsuh Abebe of Pitchfork complimented the band on returning with a "big ridiculous stomper, a song whose hooks get so happily ballroom-glam you'd almost think they stole them from the Sweet or the Bay City Rollers–the kind of song most bands wouldn't be able to pull off without telegraphing a whole lot of irony and embarrassment".

[15] Will Hermes of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the album "shows Franz Ferdinand working harder and sounding bigger, befitting their stature as rock's saviors of the moment",[11] while David Fricke of Rolling Stone noted that the album "shows deeper roots in the first wave of white electric dance music: specifically the crunchy-guitar R&B and arch-garage songwriting of 1965–1967 Kinks".