The Scottish mod rogues are back with their best album in 15 years, a resurgence for the craftiest, most clever U.K. guitar band of their era. The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent ...

The Scottish band’s sixth album summons the vintage swagger and suave humor of its early work but little of the punkish exhilaration. Franz Ferdinand transitioned gracefully to legacy act.

We did see the greatest hits album in 2022, which added to their long list of remixes, one off, and EP releases, but The Human Fear marks the first batch of new songs from the theatrical Scottish ...

The Human Fear is their sixth album, and the first since 2018. Of the original quartet who formed Franz Ferdinand in Glasgow in 2002, only singer Alex Kapranos and bassist Bob Hardy remain in what ...

Kicking off 2025 with a blast of dancey riffs and typical quirky hooks, the band return with album number six, The Human Fear. Opener "Audacious" evokes the bands earlier material with high energy ...

Today, that album has been announced. It’s called Last Leg of the Human Table, and CCA’s announcement says that if Cloakroom’s 2022 album Dissolution Wave “was a space western following an ...

This album is the answer to that question ... with an eyebrow cocked and high kicks galore, ‘The Human Fear’ is – as promised – Franz-y as fuck. You do you, hun; you do it so well.

The album kicks off with Audacious ... Unwilling to plunge into something more personal or political, the band behind The Human Fear sound unspectacular, their pop sensibilities short of the hedonist ...