Den 26:e januari kommer Franz Ferdinands album Tonight. Så här säger sångaren Alex Kapranos om släppet:

”Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is music of the night: to fling yourself around your room to as you psyche yourself for a night of hedonism, for the dance-floor, flirtation, for your desolate heart-stop, for losing it and loving losing it, for the chemical surge in your bloodstream. It’s for that lonely hour gently rocking yourself waiting for dawn and it all to be even again.”

Animal Collective släpper nya albumet Merriweather Post Pavilion den 12:e januari. Det är gruppens nionde fullängdare och det spelades in i Sweet Tea Recording Studio i Mississippi av Gnarls Barkley-producenten Ben Allen.

Albumet är något för den som går igång på det här:

”To get the low end they wanted, we set up four different reamping stations in the studio—using a Fender spring reverb, an Ampeg Portaflex bass amp, a little Gibson guitar amp and the huge QSC P.A. system they use for their live shows.”

”They’d record things straight out of their samplers through the Neve 80 Series desk into Pro Tools, and then we’d reamp the kick drum or the snare drum or 20 snare drums or bass synth parts through one of those stations, pick the sound we liked best and record that back into the computer.”

Ben Allen till mixonline.com