Bob Hardy Delivers Urgency to Franz Ferdinand’s “The Human Fear”
Franz Ferdinand has returned with The Human Fear, marking the Glasgow band’s sixth studio album. According to frontman Alex Kapranos, the Indie stalwarts didn’t set out to write a song based on fear.
“The last song that was written, the last lyrics that were written was (for) the song ‘Hooked,'” he told AP News. “It starts off with the line, ‘I’ve got the fear / I’ve got the human fear.’ And I realize that so many of the songs had an underlying theme of fear to them. But not necessarily succumbing to fear, but more like overcoming fear.”
Kapranos and bassist Bob Hardy are the two remaining original members. Hardy is in top form on the record, pumping out melodic lines that serve as the hook for several songs. Check out his urgent bounce on the verse to the opening track, “Audacious”:
The Human Fear is out now on CD, vinyl and as a digital download (Apple Music and Amazon Music).
The Human Fear Track List:
- Audacious
- Everydaydreamer
- The Doctor
- Hooked
- Build It Up
- Night or Day
- Tell Me I Should Stay
- Cats
- Black Eyelashes
- Bar Lonely
- The Birds
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