This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “So when we were making this record we made sure there was nothing like that round about us.” ![]() Probably not consciously but that environment certainly had an effect on the making of that record,” he says. “When we were making our second record there was certainly some sense of obligation – both to fans of the band and to labels. “We didn’t start work on a record until we desperately wanted to,” he says, making veiled reference to the chart inertia that resulted in their sophomore album, You Could Have It So Much Better, and the burnout that followed 2009’s Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - an in studio exploration of ‘70s era analogue synth pop melancholy, as resurrected recently by Daft Punk. As Kapranos notes, it took time apart to truly come to terms with the urgency of creation, and for Right Thoughts… that meant getting as far away from the creative environment of the group’s previous two albums as possible. This nostalgic-relevant duality did not come easy for the group. Article content ‘We didn’t start work on a record until we desperately wanted to’ĭubbed Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, the album is a bookend of sorts for the Scottish group’s signature dance-indie-pop sound – the spikey, catchy, angular pop that caught the zeitgeist nearly a decade ago with ubiquitous single, Take Me Out, as interpreted through the other side of pop (and life)’s looking glass. ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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