After Nick McCarthy's departure, the group announces, on May 19, 2017, to now consist of five members with Dino Bardot on guitar, and Julian Corrie on keyboards and guitar. In March 2015, the group formed a supergroup with Sparks under the name of FFS, for an album called FFS. In 2013, the group released its fourth album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. It is completed by the compilation of remixes Blood, which moves away from the original style of the band to go for more techno influences, even dance. It contains singles Ulysses and Lucid Dreams. Their third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, was released on January 26, 2009.

In 2005, they released a second album, You Could Have It So Much Better, which contains titles such as The Fallen, Do You Want to and Walk Away. Their debut album, released in 2004, reached the third-best-selling album in the UK, and won a Mercury Music Prize, propelling them into the international arena, including the single Take Me Out.

This name inspired them because it implied a notion of brutal change (in a political context already very tense, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand had precipitated the First World War). This surname came to them by watching a horse race, one of whose competitors bore the name of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (Franz Ferdinand in German). Franz Ferdinand is a British rock band from Glasgow, Scotland.

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