In April 2018, Scottish indie-rock band Franz Ferdinand—whose album Always Ascending (2018), their first in four years, heralded a return to 2000s danceable riffs echoing Talking Heads and Joy Division—delivered a session for KEXP, Seattle's radio station renowned since 2001 for intimate studio recordings before small audiences. The 25-minute performance, captured in high quality, mirrored the tour's nascent phase, where Nick McCarthy's guitar textures intertwined with Alex Kapranos' charisma to contrast garage drive with melancholic bridges. As a rare artifact of their American breakthrough, this show highlighted Franz Ferdinand's role in reviving British post-punk, where festival groove gained chamber scale.