She just got it like that, and the whole feel felt really fucking good.” By that point, Kapranos says, everyone got along swimmingly and knew that she was Franz Ferdinand’s new drummer. “The hi hat is going, ‘Chka-ch-ch-ch/chka-ch-ch-ch/chka-chka-chka-ch,’ which is a really difficult thing to remember and to pull off, but it makes the song flow in a way that’s really cool. When local artist Audrey Tait came in for an audition at the band’s studio, Kapranos handed her “Curious.” “It's deceptively simple, but the hi hat pattern is kind of weirdly complicated,” Kapranos explains on a video call from the studio. Because they were a Glasgow band, the drummer needed to be from that city. The others said they were excited to keep pushing forward-something Franz Ferdinand has seemingly always done-and Kapranos said that the next order of business, even before running through new song “Curious,” was to find a new drummer. “‘Do you want to keep playing music in the context of this band? Because now's the time to say yes or no.’” “‘Right, how do you feel? Are you excited about this music?’” he asked them. The morning that drummer Paul Thomson officially left Franz Ferdinand last fall, bandleader and chief songwriter Alex Kapranos addressed his remaining bandmates: co-founding bassist Bob Hardy, keyboardist Julian Corrie, and guitarist Dino Bardot (who joined the band in 2016 when original guitarist Nicholas McCarthy departed).
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