![]() ![]() There’s so much going on there that every time I come back to his songs I find something else new.įor this album, the line-up has changed for the first time in the band’s history. It’s his rich lyrical seams that I find the most satisfying. I always get a kick out of The Magnetic Fields and pretty much any of Stephin Merritt’s other projects. It has an unusual time signature – 5/4, I think, rather than the standard 4/4 – which really makes it stand out for me.Īre there any artists you guys have listened to for a long time that just keep on giving? It was an approach we were eager to pursue and the songs we were going to release as singles were undecided until the very last moment.ĭo you have a favourite track from the new album? We didn’t actually state this idea out loud, though, until Philippe Zdar joined us in the pre-production stages and made the claim that he ‘pisses on singles’ and that every track needs to receive the same amount of love and attention or the others ‘would get jealous’. ![]() We wanted our records to sound like solid bodies of work with no ‘filler’, for every song to have as much impact no matter if it was a single, an album track or a B-side. When we first started as a band it was definitely our approach. Is that a familiar approach for you guys? ![]() This time, you decided not to focus on deliberately making any singles. Sometimes it’s nice just to focus on what we’re making. It’s often the case that when we’re in the studio writing and recording, we actually listen to less outside music then we would when we’re touring. Where did you draw inspiration from while making the new album?Īs a group of people we listen to a lot of very different music and it’s difficult to name specific records or artists that directly influence what we’re working on at any one time. We wanted to push this idea further than we had before. We decided that we wanted to make a record that focused on the idea we’d always had of Franz Ferdinand being a live band that played dance music. We gave ourselves a lot of time to play around with Alex’s synth collection that he’s been amassing over several years. How did it come about artistically, and how was it put together?Īlex, Paul and myself began writing at the very end of 2015. So, right off the bat, we want to ask about Always Ascending. The band behind tracks like Take Me Out and Dark of the Matinee have stayed true to their roots throughout their career, as evidenced on this year’s Always Ascending, a record laden with the same dirty synth-pop and raw indie sensibilities as their first album.Īhead of their show at Southorn Stadium next Friday, we speak to Bob Hardy, the group’s bassist, about the new album and what he’s looking forward to when the band return sto Hong Kong for the first time in five years. More than 14 years on from their iconic self-titled debut, Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand are still going strong. ![]()
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