Before I knew it, there was a song there and we had a song for this band which didn’t exist and ended up becoming Franz Ferdinand. ALEX KAPRANOS: I feel that our second album is really a continuation ...

The Staines heroes went Top 10 in the summer of 2005 with this anthemic tune. One of the b-sides is a cover of The White ...

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I like the fact that if a song is strong, you can push and pull it into all kinds of different shapes.” Every track is instantly identifiable as a Franz Ferdinand song. Do you find yourself ...

The Human Fear is the first studio album from the Do You Want To icons in seven years but Franz Ferdinand have never actually stopped. The new album had to compete with their classic songs ...

Franz Ferdinand transitioned gracefully to legacy ... “Build It Up,” one of several songs co-written by keyboardist Julian Corrie, is funky and light on its feet, with a chorus that packs ...

Two decades ago, the Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand sent a jolt across the music world. They quickly became global icons for their deliriously hooky songs, hitting a critical mass in the chant ...

Seven years have passed since indie-rock legend Franz Ferdinand released an album. Reappearing this year with the utterly ...

“We all do things that we wish we hadn’t done,” Alex Kapranos purrs at the end of the new Franz Ferdinand album ... a second or third chance, and the songs just jump out at you.

The curveball on The Human Fear is a song called Black Eyelashes. Just as we’re feeling comfortable with the slick Anglo-indie-rock hooks that earned Franz Ferdinand their first Brit Awards in ...

Franz Ferdinand don’t do anything surprising with ... So here’s a bunch of songs searching for the thrill of being human via fears. Not that you’d necessarily notice on first listen.” ...

In that time, there have been four more studio albums, a retrospective, line-up shifts, offshoot supergroups and countless gigs that have cemented the band’s reputation as one of the finest live acts ...