Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos has revealed some unconventional recording methods they have used for their highly anticipated forthcoming album. The band along with producer Dan Carey have been recording the album in Glasgow and are in the midst of wrapping up recording with and expected release date of early 2009. Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Kapranos said the group “have been doing a lot of experimenting in the studio with Dan. He’s made us record the album in a much wilder way than we’re used to.

“We did this thing in the studio called the Doppler Effect which is like when you are on the high street and you hear an ambulance go past and the sound of the siren pitch changes when it passes you. We were doing something similar on a track called ‘What She Came For‘.

“We were recording the guitar in this big hall next to our studio and Nick climbed into the ceiling and fed a microphone cable down through the rafters above the guitar speaker. Then when we were recording Dan was swinging this microphone above the guitar amp and we got this incredible sound.”

The forthcoming album is the follow-up to 2005’s ‘You Could Have It So Much Better‘.