Franz Ferdinand Return With New Album ‘The Human Fear’ | News

Scottish rock stalwarts Franz Ferdinand are again!

On January twentieth subsequent yr, the quintet will launch ‘The Human Worry’ by way of Domino, their first studio album since 2018’s ‘Always Ascending‘.

Recorded at AYR studios in Scotland, the eleven-track album is led by the tempo-shifting, jubilant prelude ‘Audacious’ – a sonic balm in an age of nihilism, and a neat name again to their revivalist artwork rock origins. The accompanying video was directed by long-time collaborator Andy Knowles and filmed at Barrowland in Glasgow, a daily homecoming hang-out for the band.

Of the monitor, frontman Alex Kapranos says: “It’s about having an audacious response whenever you really feel the material of existence come undone round you. Being daring, opposite. Peering over the sting into the eternity of non-existence and saying Aye! Fuck it! Not right now thanks!”

‘The Human Worry’ is the primary album to characteristic members Audrey Tait and Dino Bardot. The report additionally sees Julian Corrie step ahead to collaborate with Alex Kapranos and Bob Hardy on songwriting and artistic duties. Written earlier than they entered the studio, the songbook was recorded stay with the band within the room and most of the vocals on the album are authentic, first-time takes.

All through the set, Franz Ferdinand discover human fears and the way overcoming and accepting these fears drives and defines our lives. Alex lays out the album mission assertion: “Making this report was one of the life-affirming experiences I’ve had, nevertheless it’s referred to as ‘The Human Worry’. Worry reminds you that you simply’re alive. I feel all of us are addicted indirectly to the excitement it may give us. How we reply to it exhibits how we’re human. So right here’s a bunch of songs trying to find the joys of being human by way of fears. Not that you simply’d essentially discover on first pay attention.”

Timed with the discharge, the band have have additionally introduced of a brief run of UK/European headline exhibits within the early a part of 2025, earlier than which they head to South America for a headline area tour and various Mexican dates alongside The Killers. They’ll carry out at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London on March fifth and Glasgow’s Barrowland two days later.

Tickets for the UK dates go on fan pre-sale at 10am on September 18th and basic sale 10am on September twentieth by way of www.franzferdinand.com.

Watch the video for ‘Audacious’ beneath.

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