CR Blog » Constructivism: the ism that just keeps givin’:

We have seen a tide of increasingly jejune depoliticised versions of Constructivism perpetrated by western graphic designers over the years. The most conspicuous – and egregious – recent example of this is the Franz Ferdinand album You Can Have It So Much Better which reworks a famous Rodchenko photomontage of 1924 for a Moscow publisher in which Lilya Brik, the muse of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, joy­ously cries out “books”. By inserting the words “franz ferdinand” in their place, the band has scored an ugly victory for commercial egotism over intellectual idealism.

Refreshing to see someone analyzing album art — and, by extension, pop music — from a different perspective.  And here I just thought it was kind of a dull design.