Video: Franz Ferdinand premiere ‘Right Action’

Franz Ferdinand have premiered the official video for their new single ‘Right Action‘ – check it out below.

The track acts as the lead single for the group’s long awaited fourth studio album ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action‘, and is released on August 19th. It was first unveiled along with a second new song, ‘Love Illumination‘, last month.

‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action’ features guest vocals from Roxanne Clifford of Veronica Falls and Peter, Bjorn and John duo Todd Terje and Bjorn Yttling. It has been described by frontman Alex Kapranos as, ‘The idea of the cynic’s search for optimism and the sceptic’s search for a manual crop up here and there’.

“I’ve always liked the lead character in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark growing the hard scales to defend the soft inner-self from the world,” he told Mojo. “Socially awkward asthmatic with a self-consuming imagination. My 19-year-old self was electrified. Maybe the album is about how to shed those scales.”