Scottish art rockers Franz Ferdinand have opened up about their forthcoming LP. Singer Alex Kapranos has told fans they'll have to wait until early 2008 to pick up the new disc, which has been in the works since January. "The new songs have a much heavier synth/dance kind of element to them," Kapranos told MTV America. "Nick [McCarthy, keyboardist and guitarist] bought himself a new velvet cape and we needed an excuse for him to wear it, so we had to get him a big bank of synthesisers to play." Apparently, half the necessary songs are in the can and Kapranos reckons his influences this time include people's obsessions and Truman Capote's literary masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Franz Ferdinand's last LP was 2005's You Could Have It So Much Better.