Watch Franz Ferdinand play ‘Bar Lonely’ on TV for the primary time
Franz Ferdinand have given new track ‘Bar Lonely’ its tv debut on CBS Saturday Classes – take a look at the footage beneath.
The Scottish indie band are getting ready to launch their sixth studio album ‘The Human Worry’ subsequent week (January 10) through Domino, and have to this point shared the singles ‘Evening Or Day’ and ‘Audacious’. You’ll be able to pre-order/pre-save the album here.
Forward of its launch, the group have appeared on CBS Saturday Classes, the place they performed each singles, in addition to ‘Bar Lonely’, stay in studio. The latter was getting its first public efficiency, apart from its look within the band’s setlists in late 2024. Watch the three songs right here:
Produced by Mark Ralph (who beforehand labored with the Scottish Mercury Prize-winners on 2013’s ‘Proper Ideas, Proper Phrases, Proper Motion’), ‘The Human Worry’ marks the band’s first studio album since 2018’s acclaimed and dance-driven ‘All the time Ascending’.
A press launch guarantees that the 11 tracks on the album will “all allude to some deep-set human fears and the way overcoming and accepting these fears drives and defines our lives.”
Chatting with NME in regards to the LP, frontman Alex Kapranos shared: “I don’t assume there’s a single track that you simply’ll hear on the album and gained’t assume, ‘Oh, is that Franz Ferdinand?’ On the similar time, there might be considering, ‘Oh, did they actually try this?’ That’s to not say I begin rapping or something like that.”
He additionally defined what he believes ‘The Human Worry’ represents: “All of us have fears in our lives, and people fears are type of a clue to understanding who we’re – how we reply to them, how we overcome them (if we overcome them, as a result of typically we don’t). The best moments in your life often contain overcoming some type of concern. Typically it’s a paralysing concern, however when it’s overcome, my god, it’s the best buzz on the planet!
“Say you’re asking your accomplice out for the primary time; that’s terrifying. Or shifting to a brand new city and never figuring out anyone. On the album, I’m speaking about totally different fears that I’ve seen in different folks: concern of social isolation, concern of leaving an establishment, concern of leaving or staying in a relationship. It wasn’t like a scientific evaluation when writing the songs, I solely realised that after.”
The band are also about to kick off a brief run of in-store exhibits on January 9, which is able to then be adopted by a UK and European headlining tour. Try a full record of dates right here and visit here for tickets.