Sometimes you just forget a band exists. They have some mega releases, play some awesome shows, make the papers every day, then before your realise it's like they never existed.Until one day, in a rather bizarre scenario, your Itunes Genius pulls out an old track of theirs, and you get an email through about their new album.
The band i'm talking about in this particular instance are Franz Ferdinand. To me they brought guitars back into the mainstream, which was only fuelled by the start of heavy remixes that flourished the birth of what I like to call 'gash' music, but others refer to as indie electro punk esq. You know, the kind of stuff the Tings Tings are responsible for.
So then, in another bizarre coincidence, Franz Ferdinand have announced details of the release of their third album, and it's out the day before my birthday. The 12 track album will be released on Domino Records, Monday January 26th 2009 - which means i'll be celebrating on a school night.
Titled 'Tonight' it was produced by Dan Carey and the band, and recorded at Franz Ferdinands own headquarters in Govan, Glasgow.
Talking about the album, Alex Kapranos of the band commented - “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is music of the night: to fling yourself around your room to as you psyche yourself for a night of hedonism, for the dance-floor, flirtation, for your desolate heart-stop, for losing it and loving losing it, for the chemical surge in your bloodstream. It’s for that lonely hour gently rocking yourself waiting for dawn and it all to be even again.”
Which sounds bloody marvellous if you are asking me. News is there is a single and UK tour dates to be announced shortly, which we will of course be telling you all about in due course.
The full track-listing for the album is as follows:
1. Ulysses
2. Turn It On
3. Kiss Me
4. Twilight Omens
5. Send Him Away
6. Live Alone
7. Bite Hard
8. What She Came For
9. Can’t Stop Feeling
10. Lucid Dreams
11. Dream Again
12. Katherine Kiss Me
Franz Ferdinand are: Alex Kapranos (vocals/guitar/keys), Nick McCarthy (vocals, keys, guitar), Paul Thompson (drums/guitar) and Bob Hardy (bass).
The band i'm talking about in this particular instance are Franz Ferdinand. To me they brought guitars back into the mainstream, which was only fuelled by the start of heavy remixes that flourished the birth of what I like to call 'gash' music, but others refer to as indie electro punk esq. You know, the kind of stuff the Tings Tings are responsible for.
So then, in another bizarre coincidence, Franz Ferdinand have announced details of the release of their third album, and it's out the day before my birthday. The 12 track album will be released on Domino Records, Monday January 26th 2009 - which means i'll be celebrating on a school night.
Titled 'Tonight' it was produced by Dan Carey and the band, and recorded at Franz Ferdinands own headquarters in Govan, Glasgow.
Talking about the album, Alex Kapranos of the band commented - “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is music of the night: to fling yourself around your room to as you psyche yourself for a night of hedonism, for the dance-floor, flirtation, for your desolate heart-stop, for losing it and loving losing it, for the chemical surge in your bloodstream. It’s for that lonely hour gently rocking yourself waiting for dawn and it all to be even again.”
Which sounds bloody marvellous if you are asking me. News is there is a single and UK tour dates to be announced shortly, which we will of course be telling you all about in due course.
The full track-listing for the album is as follows:
1. Ulysses
2. Turn It On
3. Kiss Me
4. Twilight Omens
5. Send Him Away
6. Live Alone
7. Bite Hard
8. What She Came For
9. Can’t Stop Feeling
10. Lucid Dreams
11. Dream Again
12. Katherine Kiss Me
Franz Ferdinand are: Alex Kapranos (vocals/guitar/keys), Nick McCarthy (vocals, keys, guitar), Paul Thompson (drums/guitar) and Bob Hardy (bass).
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