Gonna have to tell us today: Franz announce new album

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by Rob Webb [Edit this content] ▾ 21 comments 15:50 October 15th, 2008

They've taken their sweet time about it, but Scottish popsters Franz Ferdinand have finally announced details of their eagerly awaited third LP for Domino - but you'll have to wait until next year to get your mitts on it: January 26th is the release date.

Titled Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, the album contains twelve tracks recorded and produced by the band with assistance from Dan Carey (Hot Chip, CSS). A soundbite from FF frontman Alex Kapranos follows:

"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"

Has he been taking drugs? Anyway, here's a tracklisting:

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

DiScuss: excited? Indifferent? Seen them playing any of these songs live? DiS has. In Hull. It was fun, actually.

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are boring

oryxeyes | 15 Oct '08, 15:53 | X | Reply

He said that?

Or was it in the press release?

Seems very eloquent for off-the-cuff. He must be practised.

FF aren't drugs music, are they??? Crikey!

greenstone @oryxeyes | 15 Oct '08, 15:55 | X | Reply

i saw them a few months ago

i didn't recognise some songs. they sounded good.

fafafa @greenstone | 15 Oct '08, 15:59 | X | Reply

fucking...

kapranos is so fucking pretentious..their second album was massively overrated and it'll be interesting to see what this one is like.
i read an article in q magazine recently and it was this big long spiel about how they were trying to figure out whether they were a pop band or whether they were a rock band who writes pop songs, blah blah..just fucking get on with it, who gives a shit?

haribo7989 | 15 Oct '08, 16:02 | X | Reply

Sounds like a concept album.

What they played at Glasto was good - more 'disco' I guess, for want of a better word.

tape-hiss-orchid | 15 Oct '08, 16:41 | X | Reply

so tell us then

are they a pop band or a rock band that writes pop songs or a pop band that pretends to be a rock band so that they can sneak pop music into the...etc

haribo7989 @Fred-West | 15 Oct '08, 16:42 | X | Reply

bland indie disco fodder band

for people to pose on the dance floor to instead of getting down to the bussines of having fun and a boogie

jimitheexploder | 15 Oct '08, 16:47 | X | Reply

Looking forward to this

If anything the second album is underrated, though it gets sloppy in the latter half (bar the great title track and Fade Together).

It's been a while though, so will have to see. And Franz Ferdinand is for posing to rather than having fun to? Rubbish. And I love how people always sneer at music when they say it's not 'fun' - there's music you like and music you don't. If you like it it's fun on at least some level anyway.

charliepanayi @oryxeyes | 15 Oct '08, 17:01 | X | Reply

The new songs

sounded boring at Latitude.

domgourlay @charliepanayi | 15 Oct '08, 17:05 | X | Reply

yeah

got to say I disagreed with that posing comment too. I think Franz are all about having fun and silly dancing. The poses are just for their videos.
I know I heard some of these when I saw them this summer but I'm not sure which ones they were. "More disco" would be quite apt from what I remember.

elaine_yarr @charliepanayi | 15 Oct '08, 17:42 | X | Reply

wrightylew | 15 Oct '08, 20:45 | X | Reply