Fresh from his side projects with the sibling duo FFS and the supergroup BNQT (with fellow Scot Fran Healy from Travis, plus Midlake and Grandaddy alums), Kapranos-hampered by the departure of founding guitarist Nick McCarthy, who quit to raise a family in 2016-assembled his core team of bassist Bob Hardy and drummer Paul Thomson in his private studio in rural Southwest Scotland, an hour’s drive from their Glasgow home base. It also ushers in a new era of Franz Ferdinand. And listening to what makes this 17-year-old, Brit Award- and Mercury Prize-winning band tick is truly fascinating.Īlways Ascending, out this Friday, is the band’s first album since 2013’s Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. Finding a songwriter who not only invests his work with heart, soul and meticulous kid-glove care but is more than happy to forensically dissect is a rare thing indeed. Which is refreshing in an era when chart hits are so often designed by committee in far-off Sweden. When it comes to his Scottish alt-rock outfit Franz Ferdinand and their latest inventive outing, Always Ascending, the garrulous Glaswegian holds nothing back, and at a quick prompting will dive into such exhaustive, hair-splitting detail that he can come across like Homer’s rambling old-timer dad, Abe Simpson. Some artists are understandably cagey about their craft, protective of their trade secrets and composing techniques.
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