Franz Ferdinand Get "Wild" And "Experimental" On New Album

Franz Ferdinand have spoken about their next album, which is currently being worked on in Glasgow.

Talking to BBC Newsbeat, frontman Alex Kapranos says: "We have been doing a lot of experimenting in the studio with [producer] Dan [Carey]. He's made us record the album in a much wilder way than we're used to."

"We did this thing in the studio called the Doppler Effect which is like when you are on the high street and you hear an ambulance go past and the sound of the siren pitch changes when it passes you."

"We were doing something similar on a track called 'What She Came For'. We were recording the guitar in this big hall next to our studio and Nick climbed into the ceiling and fed a microphone cable down through the rafters above the guitar speaker."

"Then when we were recording Dan was swinging this microphone above the guitar amp and we got this incredible sound."

Franz Ferdinand will release the album in early 2009 - their last longplayer was 2005's 'You Could Have It So Much Better'.