Franz Ferdinand have shared a new single called ‘Feel The Love Go’. Listen below and watch its video now.
The synth and sax-heavy track features on upcoming album ‘Always Ascending’, which will be released on February 9, and follows on from the band’s title-track.
‘Always Ascending’ is the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action’ and is the band’s first record since guitarist Nick McCarthy left the group after 14 years back in July 2016.
Listen to ‘Feel The Love Go’ below and watch its video at Apple Music.
At the weekend, the band performed on the Andrew Marr Show to debut new song ‘Paper Cages’ while also taking a dig at fellow guest Prime Minister Theresa May.
Speaking to NME last October, frontman Alex Kapranos described his band’s new album as “the perfect introduction to the decade that’s about to come”.
“We wanted to take the sounds that are available to us now and make the sound that you haven’t heard before – the sound of the future,” Kapranos explained. “When you’re recording in 2017 you need to be looking ahead to the next thing. What haven’t people even heard in 2018?”
The tracklisting for ‘Always Ascending’ is:
Always Ascending
Lazy Boy
Paper Cages
Finally
The Academy Award
Lois Lane
Huck And Jim
Glimpse Of Love
Feel The Love Go
Slow Don’t Kill Me Slow
Franz Ferdinand tour and tickets
The band’s upcoming UK and Ireland tour dates are below, where they’ll be supported by Albert Hammond Jr. The dates include a special VO5 NME Awards 2018 show at the O2 Academy Brixton on Saturday February 24. Tickets are available here.
Saturday 10 February Galway, Ireland Leisureland
Sunday 11 February Dublin, Ireland Olympia Theatre
Tuesday 13 February Manchester Albert Hall
Wednesday 14 February Nottingham Rock City
Friday 16 February Newcastle 02 Academy
Saturday 17 February Glasgow 02 Academy
Monday 19 February Leeds 02 Academy
Tuesday 20 February Birmingham 02 Academy
Wednesday 21 February Bristol 02 Academy
Friday 23 February Cambridge Corn Exchange
Saturday 24 February London 02 Brixton Academy