How the imagined experience is way more powerful than anything actually triggered by a drug could be. “We talked about the purity and naivety our earliest psychedelic experiences: when you imagined what drugs might do to your mind, before there was an opportunity to let them. He knows how to take an idea and break it so you can see the better idea hidden within it.” Dino Bardot (the greatest rockstar Glasgow ever produced) has joined the line-up since they started touring again and Sam Potter, late of Late Of The Pier, hung out with the band in the early stages of the LP. From zero, we created this new universe to inhabit: nebulous at first, gradually taking form, until it felt like it had always existed.” The LP was mixed at Philippe’s Motorbass studio in Paris, recorded in a couple of weeks at RAK and written over the preceding year somewhere in the west of Scotland. Everything comes from that: the sound, performance, tempo, instrumentation, how far you stand from the mic… everything.” He understands that what is essential is the emotion: the emotion that inspired the song and the emotion that the song inspires in you on hearing it. We don’t know.’ Then I remembered I still had his number, so I texted him and said ‘I’ve always thought we could make a truly great LP together’ and he replied straight back and said ‘Yes! Let’s do it!’” I asked Laurence (Bell, Domino boss) and Cerne (Cannning, manager/svengali) to put us in touch and they said ‘Oh, he’s a bit of an enigma. “Philippe is someone we’d wanted to work with for a long time.” said Alex “Last time we spoke, he was recording the Beastie Boys. With reclusive producer Philippe Zdar (Cassius, Phoenix, Beastie Boys), FF have taken a knife to their old canvas, creating an album that is so foreign in its familiarity it could only be current. In case you missed the announcement last year, Nick McCarthy (guitar) left to raise his family and Julian Corrie, a much-loved figure in the Glasgow music scene, joined core members Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy and Paul Thomson. There have been substitutions, but the team is playing stronger than ever. “We wanted this to sound like nothing we made before,” said the band and after listening to the first moments of the title track it’s obvious that’s what they’ve accomplished. The album’s ten songs are a triumphant recasting of one of our favourite groups, bursting with fresh ideas and vigorous sonic experimentation. Always Ascending is nothing short of a rebirth. It was truly a luxury to enjoy them in concert and with such faultless rhythms and lyrics, it would be a challenge not to.Forget everything you think you know about Franz Ferdinand. I have never had the chance to see them on stage and it was even better than I anticipated.Īt one point, for ‘Take Me Out’, they had three guitars and bass playing (Julian Corrie who plays keyboards also supports on guitar as well) which were backed by hefty drums, and the sound was perfectly immense and just the kind of impact you want when hearing a band live. And, the collective buzz when the hits got played was simply infectious. The layering of the vocals and constantly changing tempos have become somewhat of a trademark for the band and that energy holds the stage with a tight, clever grip.īy the time they got to their fifth song and familiar hit, ‘Do You Want To’, the crowd was all hands in the air and there was plenty of moshi-ness. They make it all seem effortless and so polished and seamlessly easy to join in as every song appeals. The Glaswegians were bang on top form and, it has to be said, the production of the set was mesmerising, keeping the performance tight and slick. The new material from the album maintains their artistry and does not disappoint. Their sound vibrates straight through your body, with a lovely buzzy sensation that makes it compulsory to move in time. Musically and vocally brilliant, it had all the muscular chords and perfect mastery of the indie rock band one has come to expect from them. There was no delay, they bounced straight into their first song, ‘Always Ascending’, the title track off their new album. With gorgeous, bright blonde locks and a swish, dapper leopard print jacket to go with his modern-dandy ensemble, frontman Alex Kapranos swept onto the stage with his Franz Ferdinand band members at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge last Friday to a thrilled, baying crowd.
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