Franz Ferdinand lead singer Alex Kapranos has recently opened up about how becoming a father has changed his life. The 52-year-old said that departing on tours with his band is now “really difficult.” He explained how saying goodbye to his son is hard and how he has spent his adult life trying to shirk responsibility. Fatherhood, therefore, has been quite refreshing to him.
Kapranos, alongside his wife Clara Luciani, welcomed their first child in 2020. He compared the experience to the band’s early days, where they would play gigs, go out all night, and be up at 6 am to fly somewhere. Sleep deprivation now feels like it did back in the early days, only without a hangover.
Franz Ferdinand is set to release their sixth album, The Human Fear, in January 2022. The group emerged from Glasgow’s bustling music scene and enjoyed chart success with inescapable singles like Take Me Out. The band earned a reputation as one of the country’s finest live acts and snagged the Mercury Music Prize in 2004.
Despite the changes in lineup, Kapranos believes that the band’s identity and sound remain intact. The Human Fear is filled with ideas fresh to the group, with orchestral flourishes on recent single Audacious and new instruments like the bouzouki being used on Black Eyelashes.
Politics is something that Franz Ferdinand has visited before, backing Scottish independence in 2014 and releasing Demagogue two years later, aimed at the then incoming American President Donald Trump. However, Kapranos is “loathe to do [his] share of it” this time around. He finds it “wear[y]” seeing it everywhere on social media and believes that the arts are a powerful tool of protest that should continue to be used, but there is a difference between that and low key whinging
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