Franz Ferdinand have completed work on their as-yet-untitled third album.
Frontman Alex Kapranos confirmed the Scottish four-piece has recorded the follow-up to 2004's You Could Have It So Much Better.
Alex said the new album would be "a bit more assured and friendlier on the dancefloor" than its predecessor.
He told the BBC: "Yes it does sound different, and there are different instruments on the record, different tempos, a different attitude to making it.
"But it's always going to sound like a Franz Ferdinand record when it's the four of us making it. It's very much a dance record again this time."
A release date has not yet been confirmed.