Nick McCarthy has just left Franz Ferdinand in order to spend more time with his family, so what better way than to start a new side project with his wife Manuela Gernede?
Manuela have shared the track ‘Cracks In The Concrete‘, of which Gernede says:
“Lyrically ‘Cracks In The Concrete’, like much of the album, is skipping back and forth between a narration and internal monologue. The line ‘cracks in the concrete’ was partly inspired by the French phrase ‘sous les páves, la plage!’ which came up during the student revolts there in May ’68. Roughly translated it says ‘there is sand underneath the pavement!’.”
“It’s talking about the potential of things breaking and breaking up things. Everything is morbid and falling apart and you have to keep on telling yourself that it’s going to work itself out (‘everything is healing’).”
In the absence of McCarthy, Franz Ferdinand are recording a new album after 2013’s ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action‘ and last year’s FFS collaboration with Sparks.