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Sly Meets Fela On New Franz Ferdinand Album

Er, literally...

  • by C Taylor
  • Saturday, February 16, 2008
  • Photo by: Shirlaine Forrest
  • filed in: Indie
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Franz Ferdinand’s Paul Thomson’s got lyrical on what direction the band’s new album is taking.

In a Myspace blog posting which may indicate studio madness has thoroughly set in as the Scottish band prepare their third long player, Thomson says the record is taking eclectical turns.

He writes, “Perhaps you might like to know what direction the album is taking at this stage.

“I would say it sounds a bit like Sly and the Family Stone meets Prince in Govan on the way back fae signing on when Sly remember he still owes Fela Kuti that fiver from last week when Fela tapped him at Brian Eno's birthday party in downtown Lagos but what with the exchange rate and everything he has to figure out how much he owes him in sterling, so he goes round to Jacques Brel's, cos Jacques' good with numbers….”

And it continues.

Frontman Alex Kapranos last month described it, rather more simply, as a “dirty pop record".

Soundbite culture, eh?

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  • Amazing.... What of record will it be?

    ~ by Cate 2/17/2008

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