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Franz Ferdinand have put back the release of their as-yet-untitled third album until 2009.
The Scottish avatars of angular still have “quite a bit of mixing to do” on the record, which frontman Alex Kapranos says will not see light of day ‘til January next year at the earliest.
Speaking to BBC 6Music, Kapranos also revealed that the band were having difficulties choosing a title for the album, which will allegedly have an African 'vibe' and is their first since 2005’s You Could Have It So Much Better:
“We were gonna call it Bite Hard at one point because there was a song called 'Bite Hard' and we weren’t gonna use that as a song, but liked the phrase.”
“It’s quite suggestive but apparently in the States if you say something ‘bites’ it means it sucks, so if something bites hard, it sucks really badly. So we thought, ‘no, we’ll choose another title.’”
In related news the following looped nugget turned up on the band’s website the other day; a Sly Stone-ish funk jam which, should it turn out to be an offcut from the delayed release, bodes quite well for a fine third outing from the Glasgow quartet.
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Is this going to start becoming
another Chinese Democracy at this rate?
Four years between albums seems a bit mystifying really. So long as it's as good as the debut and the first half of the second album.
see
theres the crux of it, the second was rubbish as they pretty much rushed it after the success of the first. I say better they wait and release the record when it's finished than have to suffer the dirge that was the 2nd album
Yeah
That second album was more than disappointing.
I thought the second album
was very good for the first half, and then ran out of steam abruptly (aside from the title track) - the song L Wells was great too.
I do agree they maybe rushed the second album.
Wheels fall off cart?
No sympathy from me: 6 months to mix an album is stupidly wasteful. This and the earlier indecision about choosing a producer hints at a greater dysfunction. At the end of the day there's no real magic in making a record, and the amount of time you spend tinkering with your "masterpiece" in the studio really has no bearing on the quality of the music. Loveless is the exception, but you could make that album in a week nowadays. Why not book more time in rehearsal, eh?
^
2nd album was like a hyperspeed F.F.
This from the band who did say they would be releasing it
in 2006... it is pretty annoying. I would be very interested being in a band to just keep making music. I mean The Beatles released many many incredible albums in just 1967 FFS!
On the subject of Loveless
You probably coulda made in a week back then as well, had the band's personal problems been sorted and Kev had written songs before going into the studio. Guess it's good for mythmaking though.
For all it's strengths, I wonder if Loveless is used by some bands as a justification for their wasteful "perfectionism"? It worked for them, right?
Anyway, I notice that the years that stadium squelches Coldplay spent on their latest has resulted in an album that's... OK, if you like that sort of thing. No more, no less. Case rested, and all that.
well..
...eleanor put your boots back on sounds like paul mccartney wrote in in 1966. which cant be a bad thing.
outsiders is the best song on the album
and being the closer is certainly in the second half.
i doubt it'll take six months to mix
it's more that you can't release albums past october-ish.
Yeah they did say this
didn't they - I remember that around the time of the Reading 2006 headline appearance! Better that they wait and get it right I guess, Franz aren't my favourite band and never will be, but I look forward to this record. Think my sister's seeing them at Moles in a couple of weeks, I'll get the low down on the new material then.
Yeah I agree
This is essentially what happened to Do You Like Rock Music? It was all ready to go, but was postponed to make maximum chart impact.
"African Vibe"
Pretty much means it's going to sound a bit like Vampire Weekend, doesn't it?
please FF
do not take us for fools
you've been working on your album for more than two years now
it is quite obvious that you don't have enough good material to fill it, otherwise it'd be out in a rush - and your bosses are giving you a hard time
record companies don't like long laps between albums, expecially with bands past their prime
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