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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nSetting their own pace in the studio pays off on their latest effort\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Franz Ferdinand closed ranks\u00a0for the recording of their fourth album,\u00a0Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action<\/i>. The Scottish rock band began work on the album a year and a half ago with frontman Alex Kapranos and guitarist and backing vocalist Nick McCarthy meeting in each other\u2019s homes to write songs. \u201cThe whole recording process was off and on,\u201d says McCarthy. \u201cWe recorded four or five, then stopped, maybe wrote another song or tried playing some of the others, and then recorded again. It was quite a nice way of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
After an intense two years touring behind 2009\u2019s Tonight<\/i>, the band chose a more relaxed approach in the studio. \u201cWe were doing the opposite of what we did on our last record, which we wrote and recorded in the same room,\u201d says McCarthy. \u201cWe were in there for a year and a half and didn\u2019t really want to do that again. It got a bit claustrophobic toward the end. It\u2019s always good to do something completely different next time around anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
They also took a more insular approach, self-producing the album with input from Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip, Bj\u00f6rn Yttling of Swedish band Peter Bjorn and John, and Norwegian producer Todd Terje. \u201cAll in all, we produced it ourselves,\u201d says McCarthy. \u201cWhile we invited three producers to collaborate, we oversaw the whole record. We invited people along for the ride. We\u2019ve always used a producer, and it\u2019s good to have an outside opinion. But Alex produced a couple of records with four other bands, and I did a few as well. This time we thought, \u2018We can do this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The band recorded in McCarthy\u2019s and Kapranos\u2019 respective studios. But producing themselves posed some communication challenges. \u201cYou have to be very honest with each other. You have to say if something\u2019s not good,\u201d says McCarthy. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in a band, you keep the peace sometimes. That\u2019s why we recorded for a few days and then left it again. That way you could look back at things and not get too pressured about recording, and just say, \u2018OK, let\u2019s all listen, see what it\u2019s like, and then everyone be really honest.\u2019 And it worked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recording in their own spaces also allowed the group to enjoy additional freedoms, because \u201cthen you can just do what the hell you want to do, plug things in wherever you want to without having to go through someone else,\u201d says McCarthy. \u201c\u2018I want to do this really stupid thing like plug my guitar into the power socket\u2014see what it sounds like.\u2019 When you have to go through someone to do that, you might just say, \u2018Oh no, I\u2019m not going to say that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n
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FRANZ FERDINAND Setting their own pace in the studio pays off on their latest effort\u00a0 Franz Ferdinand closed ranks\u00a0for the recording of their fourth album,\u00a0Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. The Scottish rock band began work on the album a year and a half ago with frontman Alex Kapranos and guitarist and backing vocalist Nick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[7256,7093],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11091,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions\/11091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}