Franz Ferdinand 'record human bones'

Franz Ferdinand have used human bones as an instrument on their forthcoming album Tonight.

The band told MTV that they picked up the bones at an auction last year and did not know what to do with them until they needed a "percussive sound" for song 'Kiss Me'.

"We had this skeleton in a box that just ended up sitting in the corner of the studio and we all sort of looked at it and decided to experiment with it," said frontman Alex Kapranos.

"Nick [McCarthy] had the hands was clapping the bones together, Paul [Thompson] was working with the pelvis bone and a femur.

"We put the teeth in a glass jar and rattled that about. We smacked the ribs together and we got this really weird, f****d up kind of a sound that was wicked."

The band delayed the release of Tonight earlier this year, announcing that it will be in the shops in 2009.