Franz Ferdinand agonise over new album

Franz Ferdinand have delayed the release of their new album because they cannot decide on the disc's direction.

Drummer Paul Thomson revealed that the band have already recorded 15 tracks for their third studio LP, but are struggling to make their final choices for the record.

"We have like 15 songs and there won't be 15 on the album, so we have potentially four different albums," Thomson told the Daily Star. "There's no track listing yet as we can't decide. There's four, five or six albums, depending which tracks we use. Many different combinations would make different types of albums."

Thomson added that he is wary of releasing tracks for free over the internet like Coldplay and Lily Allen.

He said: "We still think in terms of albums. Although, people who buy music probably still think less like that than they have done just because of the culture of downloading songs. I don't feel we have competition at the moment, we are a bit out of the loop."