Franz Album Put Back To 2009

Scottish angular indie-dance-rock aristocracy, Franz Ferdinand have announced that the release of their third album will once again be delayed. Having most recently intimated that the record would be released in October it now looks likely that it will be 2009 before the follow up to 2005’s You Could Have It So Much Better sees the light of day. Initial work for the as-yet-untitled record began in 2006. The recording has been beset with problems with the band dithering over the choice of producer. However, in an interview with BBC 6Music floppy haired front fella Alex Kapranos revealed that the album would have an African ‘vibe’ [how very 2008, Yeasayer, Vampire Weekend et al].

As to the album’s potential title, Kapranos said this, “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’.”

Quite, well let’s hope this much anticipated record doesn’t ‘bite’, ’suck’ or indeed become the indie-rock Chinese Democracy or, shudder, the second Second Coming.

On a more cheery note, the band have at least announced that they’ll be playing a series of smaller UK venues through late June. Check details and more at the official Franz Ferdinand website.

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