![]() Perhaps ironically, or perhaps fittingly, their few words were almost immediately misconstrued. ![]() It wasn’t until the official album announcement three years later that the band opened the door to the media, and began discussing the direction of their new record. Since then, previews of the upcoming material were trickled out only in direct-to-fan transmissions at live shows. Or in Kapranos’ succinct words, it was “tainted by bullshit.” So they began small in February of 2010 with a brief mention that the band had begun working on a new album. Until now, the band has been relatively mum on the build-up to this new release, wanting to avoid the pitfalls of the PR hype machine that they felt weighed down their previous effort, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. Lesson one for Franz? Don’t talk about it. So we spoke with him on the build-up to Franz Ferdinand’s upcoming album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (Domino Records) to learn how to piece together a record when everyone is watching…without getting twisted. Kapranos, successful in his own eyes or not, has crossed an undeniable line of exposure. I don’t know if we got there, that’s not for us to decide, but it’s a pretty good aspiration to have.” I’m not talking about a wider global context, necessarily, but what’s around you. He explains, “I reckon that with a band, you should aspire to be a similar pivotal point – that before your band, things were never quite the same as they were after them.
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