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Good news and bad news for Franz Ferdinand fans - as guitarist Nick McCarthy quits the band, but quickly returns with new music from a new band.
The founding member and guitarist of the 'Take Me Out' indie heroes left the band as they begin work on their next album. In a statement released on their Facebook, the band say that McCarthy's departure is to spend more time with his young family, although he may return in the future:
However, he's not left music for good - and has already returned with his new single 'Cracks In The Concrete' from new band Manuela. The project is a collaboration with his wife, Manuela Gernedel.
"Lyrically 'Cracks In The Concrete', like much of the album, is skipping back and forth between a narration and internal monologue," she said of the song. "The line “cracks in the concrete” was partly inspired by the French phrase “sous les páves, la plage!” which came up during the student revolts there in May ’68. Roughly translated it says “there is sand underneath the pavement!”"
She continued: "It’s talking about the potential of things breaking and breaking up things. Everything is morbid and falling apart and you have to keep on telling yourself that it’s going to work itself out (“everything is healing”)."
The track is now premiering over at Stereogum - check it out below.
Franz Ferinand formed in 2002, before achieving breakthrough success with their single 'Take Me Out' and winning the Mercury Music Prize for their self-titled debut album. They went on to release three more albums before recording a collaboration with Sparks as FFS.
