The dreary soundtrack ballad “Hallem Foe, Dandelion Blow” released by Franz Ferdinand earlier this year is, thankfully, no indication of where the band is going. Guitarist Nick McCarthy spoke recently with XFM (via Contact Music):
We want to be as pop as we can. We’re going to lose the electric guitars and play synths. There are too many guitar bands out there now.
Perhaps fending off suggestion that this was to be their Kid A, Nick reiterated his pop stance (via Gigwise):
It?s a wee bit different from last stuff but still very danceable, that?s the main thing. It?s always pop. Franz Ferdinand has always been pop.
We’ll be rocking to Franz at Bonnaroo this summer, but it sounds like we won’t be hearing much by way of the new, electro Franz. In explaining why the band chose the ‘Roo but no Brit festivals, Nick said:
We don?t really want to play any British festivals until we?ve written a bunch of new songs for people to hear. I don?t really see the point of keeping on going out and playing the same old stuff again and again you wanna come back with something exciting.
They’ll have our ears, even if they had told us they were taking style tips from Sammy Hagar this time around. Maybe. But leaving the guit-based world of Razorlight and Kaiser Chiefs for the equally inundated realm of the synth is tricky terrain. You Can Have It So Much Better… was an under-appreciated effort, so it may just make sense to shake things up. Kapranos has the writing chops. To synth? Or not to synth? Either way, the kids will always love Alex.
[Pic from Franz Ferdinand's "secret" MySpace show @ Hammerstein Ballroom 4/14/06.]
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Yeah, Franz Ferdinand are alright… but I’d much rather read about when VICE magazine got drunk with the Feist girls. http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2007/03/reunited_social.html
As it stands, I still consider Franz a JOKE. But I will give em a look at Bonnaroo.
Who’s got a Feist link?
Ooh do a Premature Evaluation on the new Maximo Park!
And “not to synth”…
If it sounds anything like im imagining then I weep for Franz. I hope this is not the case.
So many bands are all ditch-the-synths these days it’s really, really awesome to hear at least one band not make such a terrible career decision.
“There are too many guitar bands out there now.”
Wow, this guy is completely stupid.
…I doubt it. The band posted a few pictures of them playing guitars while recording for album number 3.
Van Tango rocks… The dumb thing is bands like The Killers get all the attention and arn’t as good. The Dandy Warhols had a “new wave album” “Welcome To The Monkey House” but they didn’t get cred like the Killers and all the “neo-new wave” acts. Franz is taking a change when most of the world ignores any influnce of post-punk. If you listen to any FF albums you can hear, Elvis, The Beach Boys, DD, Genisis i.e. Phill Collins years, Surf Music of the early 60′s in the guitar riffs. Then there’s a tad of The Talking Heads, and Gang of Four. I hope FF will make music for decades. FRANZ MODE…. dv8
that picture is frightening, knowing that he had made out with my friend after they played their show here in winnipeg. My friend was 18.
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