Franz Ferdinand Mixing LP3, Eyeing January Release

Also post some new music online... coincidence?

Make your way over to the music section of Franz Ferdinand's newly-revamped website, and you'll be greeted with a series of awfully groovy-sounding musical loops (and a real squeaky outlier called "Blessing"). It takes no great stretch of the imagination to assume these loops may have something to do with that LP the band is currently working up with producer Dan Carey, but only one of the tunes on the virtual turntable, "Turn It On", shares a name with those song titles the Franz have "bandied about" on their MySpace blog recently. And that one, for now anyway, is all percussion. Suppose we'll have to wait and see how this comes together, eh?

And it sounds like it might be a little while until that happens. Speaking with Steve Lamacq of BBC 6 Music, Franz frontguy Alex Kapranos claims he and the band have "quite a bit of mixing to do" yet, and since they "don't really know how long it's going to take," they're moving the release date back. "I can't see it coming out this year," Kapranos says, adding "I think it's more likely to come out in January or something like that."

Kapranos also bandied about an album title they'll leave on the cutting room floor: Bite Hard. Though the guys "like the phrase," the title was apparently scrapped due to its less favorable American connotations. "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.'" Smart move, lads.

Having brought out quite a bit of the new material at a semi-secret show in London earlier this month, Franz will take to the road for a string of dates starting June 21 in York, England.

Franz:

06-21 York, England - Fibbers
06-22 Hull, England - The Adelphi
06-24 Bristol, England - Thekla
06-25 Bath, England - Moles
06-26 Yeovil, England - Orange Box
06-28 Cardiff, Wales - The Point
06-29 Leeds, England - Faversham
07-04 Tallinn, Estonia - Ollesummer Festival
07-12 Ferrara, Italy - Piazza Castello
07-18 Southwold, England - Henham Park (Latitude Festival)
07-19 Gräfenhainichen, Germany - Ferropolis (Melt! Festival)
08-07 Skanderborg, Denmark - Skanderborg Festival
08-08 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-15-17 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
08-30 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic
08-31 Argyll, Scotland - Hydro Connect Festival

new song

Surprising, it sounds like all their other songs. Talk about a band that just flat-out sucks...

no theyre pretty good
Lucid Dreams isnt that good though, but the album ll be
like the other 2

Do you Want To wasnt the best single also

'Ulysses'
'Turn It On'
'Kiss Me'
'Twilight Omens'
'Send Him Away'
'Live Alone'
'Bite Hard'
'What She Came For'
'Can't Stop Feeling'
'Lucid Dreams'
'Dream Again'
'Katherine Kiss Me'

i kind of like the new song in a its catchy and not supposed to be good way.

let's hope they don't continue down the path like Bloc Party...

great debut, pretty poor sophomore album with 1-2 great songs, horrendous third record.

i have a lot more faith in Franz and like them a lot more live at least

im just worried cause Cant Stop Feeling was included
thats a really old song, its good if remember correctly, but not that impressive

and solace, are u talking about Outsiders and Walk Away?

Ulysses

lets see some reviews

Album leaked yesterday. Took a listen. Terrible.

it's not terrible.

in fact, it's way better than their sub-par second record.

that said, it's still just merely a good record (7-7.5/10)

Meh, I probably won't listen to it much. Nothing really struck me.

even their first record had a shelf life of about 3 months for me... so i doubt this one will be much diff

pretty good rating

i like the new album. it's better than the second one.

i'm not saying this is great or anything but it's good to have some fun.

Yeah, a lot better than the last for me. I'll probably have to listen to it some more to really rate it, but I could maybe see it as a 6 out of 10. Some fun songs, but I really dislike "Lucid Dreams."

i gave it a quick spin, but nothing really caught my attention like Walk Away or Take Me Out

Turn It On and Bite Hard tried though

Turn it On is probably my favorite track up to this point.