Franz Ferdinand have taken on Chappell Roan‘s ‘Good Luck Babe’. Test it out under.
The band performed the Grammy-nominated observe, from Roan’s 2023 album ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, on Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 present final evening (November 27).
Forward of their efficiency, frontman Alex Kapranos advised Whiley: “It’s simply an incredible music by an unimaginable artist,” including: “It’s humorous, you get some artists which have a second, typically it’s type of divisive.
“Some individuals completely love them and a few individuals hate them. However I’ve not come throughout anyone I do know, none of my buddies, no person I do know, who doesn’t like this artist. They’re simply so good. This music’s unimaginable so we’re going to play it.”
The duvet sees them imbue the pop observe with an indie edge. You’ll be able to test it out under.
Franz Ferdinand are set to launch their upcoming album ‘The Human Worry’ on January 10, 2025 through Domino. To this point, they’ve shared the singles ‘Evening Or Day’ and ‘Audacious’. You’ll be able to pre-order/pre-save the album 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 ‘At all times 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, Kapranos shared: “I don’t suppose there’s a single music that you just’ll hear on the album and gained’t suppose, ‘Oh, is that Franz Ferdinand?’ On the similar time, there shall be pondering, ‘Oh, did they actually do this?’ That’s to not say I begin rapping or something like that.”
He additionally defined what ‘The Human Worry’ is and stated: “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 generally we don’t). The best moments in your life normally contain overcoming some type of worry. Typically it’s a paralysing worry, 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 realizing anyone. On the album, I’m speaking about totally different fears that I’ve seen in different individuals: worry of social isolation, worry of leaving an establishment, worry 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 additionally introduced a brief run of in-store exhibits across the album launch which can then be adopted by a UK and European headlining tour. Try a full listing of dates right here and go to right here for tickets.
In the meantime, Roan not too long ago picked up nominations in all 4 main classes for the 2025 Grammy Awards, along with her debut album ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’ up for Album of the Yr, and her observe ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ in competition for each File of the Yr and Music of the Yr. Roan can also be nominated for Finest New Artist.
NME awarded the album 4 stars, writing that it’s a “show of Roan’s daring and brazen pen, the place she locations searing revelations alongside some deliciously cheeky choruses.”
