Scottish art-rockers Franz Ferdinand have unveiled details of their upcoming third album ‘Tonight: Franz Ferdinand’, revealing that they’ve ditched their ‘big sounding stadium rock’ approach that helped them sell 5 million units of their previous albums.

“I’m really bored by all the guitar music,” guitarist Nick McCarthy told the Times. “It’s gone. It’s finished. It’s all over. There has to be something new again now. All these high-sounding guitars – that can’t be it. On ‘Tonight’ we’re embracing synthesizers, electronics,” he revealed.

However, top Guardian critic Ian Gittins promptly demolished the band’s claims in a review of their showcase gig at London’s Heaven, branding the Scottish four piece ‘rock’s coolest control freaks’. “Franz Ferdinand are back, but their advance publicity has been distinctly misleading,” he declared. “Any radical changes in musical direction are notable only by their absence.