Franz Ferdinand have told Newsbeat their third album, out next January, will be "wilder" and more "disco driven" than their previous records.
Frontman Alex Kapranos says the band are putting the finishing touches to the follow-up to You Could Have It So Much Better in their Glasgow studio.
There's no title yet but Alex said the record was "inspired by whatever was round about me".
The band have already road tested some tracks during a series of club shows.
Despite early indications that the album took an afro-beat direction following their recent Africa Exprez gig with Damon Albarn, the band denied they would be adopting that sound.
 |  Some of the songs are kicking about on bootlegs and YouTube which is really cool  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand |
"There's definitely a different feel. I've been noticing the audiences moving in a different kind of way to the way they might have moved to the older songs."
He went on: "I think the African thing got a little exaggerated because we did the Africa Exprez gig a wee while ago and I think drummer Paul (Thomson) and I mentioned we'd been listening to some Ethiopian bands.
"Suddenly everybody thought we were making an afro-beat album. But we're not really. I think we're incapable of making an afro-beat album. It's always going to sound like a Franz Ferdinand album."
BY-BBC NEWS
