Franz Ferdinand Start Work on New Album

A year on from their third album, 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand', and frontman Alex Kapranos has confirmed that work has begun on its follow-up. However, Kapranos has decided to play his cards close to his chest and is remaining tight-lipped as to where the album his headed.

He explained to BBC 6 Music, "Before the last record, I talked far too much about it as we had the ideas and I made a vow that I wasn't going to say anything about what we are actually doing until we've done it, and then wait about another three weeks."

He did at least reveal that he and guitarist Nick McCarthy were knocking around some new ideas: "I've been round at Nick's and we've been writing some things, and trying to do things in a different way again. You'll hear it before too long."

Kapranos has also been working on a song called 'The Eyes of Mars' with Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard. The fruits of their labour is set to appear in a fashion advert and the experience proved to be a breath of fresh air for Franz Ferdinand.

"That was kinda fun," he said. "Working with her was totally different from anything I've done before. Really refreshingly, she was just into learning it and learning it. Guys in indie bands are the laziest you've ever met in your life. They go, 'Oh, we have to run through it a fourth time?'"