Franz Ferdinand reveal second album woes

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos has revealed that recording the band's second album You Could Have It So Much Better was not an enjoyable experience.

The group attempted to change their approach in the studio when they worked on their latest offering Tonight, which is being released more than three years after their last disc.

"Making this album was more enjoyable than making the second one," Kapranos told The Scotsman. "I got sick of being asked, 'Did you feel the pressure of making the second record after people liked your first record?' Yes! Gonna stop asking me about it?"

Paul Thomson added: "We had so many self-imposed deadlines on the second record that the songs didn't have the opportunity to evolve. So we were trying to get back that freedom of the first record.

"When we first started writing songs we didn't think we would get as far as releasing an album. We'd all been plugging away in bands for years, rarely having the opportunity of putting an album out."

Tonight will be released on Monday.