DIY Weekly, 26th August 2013 - Out Now Feat. Franz Ferdinand

There are pros and cons to sticking to a formula. But when you’ve a sound as accomplished and damn untouchable as Franz Ferdinand’s, why bother chalking it off and ‘evolving’ into something new?

With new album ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action’, Alex Kapranos and crew are in superb, confident form. When Alex discusses the ins and outs of his band’s return to DIY Weekly, he’s big in claiming that routine needn’t budge by default.

Elsewhere in DIY’s latest tablet and smartphone edition, Edware Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros get real on their self-titled new album, 65daysofstatic psyche themselves up for Arctangent festival and Sweet Baboo gives fighting talk to his opponents for the Welsh Music Prize.

Manchester’s most eccentric oddballs MONEY prove themselves to be one of the most exciting new bands in the country, while Balance and Composure find their feet after being thrust into the spotlight with their debut album.

Prolific composer Anna Meredith enthuses about lions and fire-breathing dragons in Neu, and while we prepare our full report on exactly what happened at Reading Festival, we give you first word on the ridiculous events that occured when DIY coined the term #Didowatch.

All this, in the new DIY Weekly, available now on iTunes Newsstand.

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