The line-up has changed too, with Julian Corrie on keys, Dino Bardot on guitar, plus Audrey Tait now on drums, replacing Thompson. From there the band have refined and reimagined themselves over five ...

“We all do things that we wish we hadn’t done,” Alex Kapranos purrs at the end of the new Franz Ferdinand album, but it sounds like his regrets are too few to mention. The Scottish mod rogues are back ...

It’s an overcast afternoon when Alex Kapranos joins our Zoom call from his hotel in Portland, Oregon, but he doesn’t seem to mind. If anything, it reminds him of Glasgow’s own trademark cloudy skies.

Fear is the mind killer, as anyone who’s read Dune knows, but for Franz Ferdinand it’s inspiration. Various forms of foreboding informed every song on the Scots’ upcoming sixth studio album The Human ...

Franz Ferdinand says their new album revolves around the most uncomfortable of emotions. "People don't like admitting to feeling fear," says frontman Alex Kapranos. "Bob [Hardy] and I had this great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scottish indie band Franz Ferdinand return with their sixth studio record 'The Human Fear," which addresses the universality of ...