They weren't able to vote Stateside, but Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand lent their support to Barack Obama in Brooklyn just a few weeks ago, by performing at a fundraiser for the President Elect.

"It's the most political thing we've done," Franz guitarist Nick McCarthy tells Spinner. "We just kind of wanted to show our support really. We can't tell Americans how to vote, [but we wanted to] just let people know that a Scottish band would like to see a change in the world as well."

The four-piece, fronted by Alex Kapranos, gave fans of the Obama-benefiting show a treat, playing new songs from 'Tonight,' their January-due third album, including cut 'What She Came For.'

The recorded version of the song, which the band laid down earlier this year with producer Dan Carey at their studio -- an old theater in their native Glasgow, Scotland -- features Rosie Wilson from Gorillaz on backing vocals. While another cut, 'No You Girls Never Know' utilizes a guest of a different kind of variety -- human bones.

"We only used it just going into the chorus. You have this kind of rattling and that's the bones there," McCarthy explains. "We did a bit of handclaps as well with skeleton hands. There was a lot of voodoo going on, on this record."

McCarthy and Kapranos didn't set out to use bones on 'Tonight.' It just came about during a late night session at the theater-turned-studio. "I was at an auction with Alex and we found this skeleton for sale, so we bid for it," he explains. "We put it up in the corner. The weird thing was it had two left legs and it had two sets of ribs as well, and we had to put it together. Then [it's] late at night and we need some percussion. We just thought, 'We'll use that.'"

Despite help from beyond the grave, McCarthy said it is still ripe with the dance-able indie pop Franz Ferdinand have made their calling card.

"We definitely wanted to make a dance record," he laughs. "I think it's quite a druggy record. Every song is in an order that you could imagine listening to over the course of the night, so it's kind of getting ready, putting your clothes on, going to the bar, going to a club and then going home. And a lot of it is kind of when you're quite drunk or high."