Franz Ferdinand offer up video for new track 'Night Or Day' • News • DIY Magazine

Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand have offered up another cut from their forthcoming new album ‘The Human Fear’.

Following on from the record’s lead single ‘Audacious’ - which landed back in September alongside the album’s announcement - the band have shared their punchy new single ‘Night Or Day’, alongside an appropriately dramatic black-and-white video. Very demure, not quite as mindful.

“This song emulates the turbulent, transcendent immensity of feelings that live and breathe within four walls,” the video’s direct Rianne White has said of the clip. “Born with Franz Ferdinand in their Scottish studio, where they recorded this beauty, ‘Night or Day’ was a powerful meeting of visual and sound, all caught in the eye of 16mm black and white film. These are the storms we dance in!”

“Life may never be easy, but damn, we’ll make sure we live it up night or day. Night into day,” the band’s frontman Alex Kapranos adds. “We collaborated with the hugely talented Rianne White to capture the Drama-Noir of the environment where we recorded this and the rest of the LP. She has a sensitivity and energy which exploded into that space, giving a glimpse of the world where we made the music. Storm shake the room and boom… the dark heart of Scotland beats strong. Filmed entirely on location at AYR Studios.”

Check out the video below.

‘Night Or Day’ is the second track to be taken from the band’s sixth album ‘The Human Fear’, which is set to arrive on 10th January 2025 via Domino.

Produced by Mark Ralph - who previously collaborated with the band on their 2013 effort ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action’ - the album is the follow up to 2022’s ‘Hits To The Head’, and finds Franz confronting darker parts of the human psyche with lightness and irrepressible energy. It’s also the first studio album to feature band members Audrey Tait and Dino Bardot, while this time Julian Corrie has also joined Alex Kapranos and Bob Hardy as a credited songwriter.

Alongside the release of the record, the group have a packed live schedule that kicks off early next year. Find out where you can catch them below.

Franz Ferdinand’s upcoming UK/EU shows are as follows:

JANUARY 2025
09 Pryzm, Kingston (Banquet Records - early evening)
09 Pryzm, Kingston (Banquet Records - late evening)
10 De La Warr, Bexhill (Music’s Not Dead)
11 Dome Grand Central, Liverpool (Jacaranda Records)
12 Liquid Room, Edinburgh (Assai Records)

FEBRUARY 2025
14 Lisbon, Aula Magna
15 A Coruna, Sala Pelicano
17 Madrid, La Riviera
18 Barcelona, Razzmatazz
20 Milan, Fabrique
21 Zurich, X-Tra
22 Munich, Muffathalle
24 Berlin, Huxleys Neue Welt
25 Warsaw, Progresja
27 Paris, La Cigale
28 Cologne, Die Kantine

MARCH 2025
01 Antwerp, De Roma
03 Amsterdam, Paradiso
05 London, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
07 Glasgow, Barrowland

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