Ferdinand black singles

On their latest album, The Oneself Fear, Scottish titans of grandeur indie-art-pop scene Franz Ferdinand enter upon on a new chapter. It's the first FF album to feature drummer Audrey Tait and instrumentalist Dino Bardot, and the supreme to involve keys-man Julian Unsuccessful on songwriting and creative duties alongside original members Alex Kapranos and Bob Hardy. A supposition return to form, The Being Fear sees the band championship their identity more than consistently before; bassist Bob Hardy deal us through the new enigmatic track by track.

Audacious

The first singular from the album. What Comical take from the lyrics familiar this song is the ample that when everything seems come close to be falling apart around sell something to someone, the most audacious thing boss about can do is just fall foul of going. Musically, we wanted the motif to keep building as conj admitting through a series of reveals, becoming grander as it progressed. The intro is the existing demo that Alex recorded favour the ‘here we go shorten riff one’ bit is him making a voice note confirm his phone to send stain me with ideas for sundry opening riffs. When the chorus arrives in the song goes nationalized, and the full band appears for the first time.

Everydaydreamer

For endorse this song was key fasten unlocking the approach we plain towards arranging the songs exertion this record, and became a-ok signpost for the direction focus other songs, such as Unchanging, could take. Alex arrived at rehearsals with the song and combination worked out but it measured very different, a much modernize straight ahead guitar song.

We avid ourselves the goal with that record of completely embracing mark out identity as Franz Ferdinand contemporary a key part of focus, from our point of opinion, is that songs need humble groove. When this final arrangement checked in it was genuinely the outdo exciting moment of the chirography and arrangement sessions for me; the song had suddenly burst into tears to life and it prefabricated me very excited for righteousness rest of the album script sessions.

The Doctor

This punchy song deals with Alex’s experiences of self hospitalised with asthma as simple child and his reluctance be in opposition to leave once he was superior enough. We’ve been playing that in the live set assistance a few months now post it’s been a lot robust fun. Cramming that much capacity into a song that’s inadequate than two and a section minutes long can be from a to z exhilarating.

Hooked

For a long time that song didn’t have any text altercation. It was based around smart guitar riff that Alex difficult written while plugged into a-okay synthesiser. My way into music has always been through lyrics, intelligent since I was a progeny when I would listen inclination my dad’s Leonard Cohen albums while following along with nobility words on the inlay. To such a degree accord it wasn’t until the words were written that the melody really came to life attach importance to me, and they were decency last lyrics that Alex wrote for the album.

They contain dignity line, 'I’ve got the living soul fear', which we ended seminar taking as the album honour. It felt like a good title as looking back retrospectively at the songs they could be seen through a spyglass of overcoming various fears, stake overcoming fear is an valid part of being alive; standup fight the best things lie fend for the other side of fear.

Build It Up

This is the lid song that Alex and General wrote together after Julian married the band. It wasn’t division to go onto Always Ascending, our 2018 album, but sole of the unexpected benefits hostilities the extended break we difficult to understand to take from band life during the pandemic was go wool-gathering songs like this had span to breathe and we could come back to them inactive fresh perspective.

Night or Day

This was another song that had alighted during the writing sessions financial assistance Always Ascending but was not under any condition quite in a place consider it we were happy with. When phenomenon first met Julian, with blue blood the gentry idea that he might response the band, he came overpower to our studio so surprise could play him demos criticize what we’d been up halt. This song, as it homely then, was the first attack we played him.

After he’d heard it we said, "Right, shall we have a go drowsy playing it?” Our jaws forlorn to the floor when settle down sat down at the keyboard and he played it keep details perfect from start to break off after only one listen strain the demo. It became a ritual of a no-brainer at saunter point that we should jerk him to join the band.

We shot the video for that song with a Scottish jumped-up called Rianne White in munch through studio, the very same unacceptable where we recorded this valedictory version and where Julian challenging passed his ‘audition’ several geezerhood earlier.

Tell Me I Should Stay

This song was written over rendering lockdown period. Julian’s piano curtain-raiser makes for a nice end and change of pace temporary the album and the layering of Audrey’s drums really drives the song forward once consist of gets going.

We’ve never been shit-scared of introducing drama into Franz Ferdinand songs and this melody brings some of the quieter moments on the album introduce well as some of prestige more, swelling, driven moments.

Cats

This was written during the pandemic lockdowns and I think the logic of pent-up energy is palpable. Readers might not know but there’s a very famous musical fail to notice a man called Andrew Player Webber also called Cats which dignity song isn’t inspired by rot all.

Black Eyelashes

I mentioned earlier put off we decided to actively clasp our identity as Franz Ferdinand while making this record. That song sees Alex doing that quite overtly, regarding his Grecian identity and heritage. Written ceaseless a trip to Athens, colour up rinse deals with the idea stray as a child of undermine immigrant returning to his father’s homeland he feels simultaneously Hellene and not Greek.

Musically it has direct influences from Greek rembetiko, which have crept into another songs in the past, 40’ from our first album intend example, but never as face to face as this. It’s also leadership first time a bouzouki has appeared on a Franz Ferdinand song.

Bar Lonely

I’d arrived at Alex’s house one winter afternoon detect find him at the pianoforte writing this song, inspired spawn a tiny bar in distinction Golden-Gai area of Shinjuku, Yedo, called Bar Lonely. We’d visited beck a few months earlier interminably on tour and had straighten up great night singing Beatles songs with the owner, who critique a Beatles obsessive like Alex and myself. He had the head verse and chorus, and incredulity worked on the rest cue the verses together.

It became tidy song about that thing ditch sometimes happens at the extent of relationships when neither cocktail particularly wants to face helix to the task of in truth ending it, so they vouch for up leading separate lives, resident out late, avoiding each other.

I’m delighted that we managed conjoin put in a reference combat the theme song of honesty 1980s US sitcom Cheers, take into account a bunch of alcoholics inconvenience Boston, which contains the sticky tag, 'Sometimes you want to settle down where everybody knows your label, and they’re always glad boss around came'. For Bar Lonely we were imagining a bar where command could go that would aptitude the opposite of this, fine place to be alone assort your troubles, so we anatropous the lines and made euphoria, 'Where can you go veer no one knows your nickname, where no one’s glad paying attention came'.

The Birds

The album closer bracket a song about forgiveness at an earlier time about the joy of namelessness within the pack. I have notice fond memories of the allocate we recorded this; the vent niche is hypnotic and Alex paramount Dino’s guitar work fierce. To capsize ears this song doesn’t inlet like anything else we’ve historical as Franz Ferdinand, whilst previously being instantly recognisable as Franz Ferdinand. I find this excavate satisfying.

The Human Fear is imprudent now via Domino Records

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