Living the Highlife: Franz Ferdinand, shortly before sitting their GCSEs in Yoruba
Websites have got themselves all hot and bloggered over a series of loops lurking on Franz Ferdinand's new homepage (check the "Music" section). Is this new material, they ask? Well who are we to leave these posters hanging? We can confirm that, yes, these are works in progress - snippets of songs that will one day emerge fully formed, blinking at the bright lights of the music industry and screaming for their mummy. Or something. The good news, is that the clips sound promisingly arty. Our random genre detector has picked up afro-pop, electro-pop, Krautrock and, thanks to some low-slung saxophone, funk of the lo-fi variety. Will they bottle it, or will future Franz Ferdinand records forge the path between Faust, funk and Fela Kuti? And, more importantly, was that far too many "F"s for one sentence? We think it probably was.
