“When we achieve a certain happiness by creating, we forget the rest”

We left Franz Ferdinand with a best-of album which succinctly summed up the twenty years of existence of this Scottish group with an untouched love rating. Led by the very charismatic Alex Kapranos, 52 years old and the figure of a young man, the Glasgow band remembers us fondly with a new album, the excellent The Human Fear (Domino). « It’s not for me to say whether our record is good or not, but this one is successful, in my opinion. I’ve always had ambition for our albums, and I’m very happy to release this one today », explained the singer and guitarist in the Parisian premises of his record company last December. The freshness of the album gives it the air of a new departure, two years after having sold the hits on Hits to the Head.

« I had resisted this project for a long time : I hate looking back. But the record company wanted it, so I gave in and I don’t regret it : solder…