Come next year, Franz Ferdinand will have been delighting fans with the skewed charms of their art-punk/dance-rock sound for a quarter of a century.
The Scottish indie favourites shot to stardom on the back of a post-punk revival, setting out their stall in no uncertain terms by bagging the 2004 Mercury Prize for their self-titled debut album. 
The following year, they successfully sidestepped the curse of the ‘difficult’ second album, scoring a major hit with You Could Have It So Much Better. 
A further four records have followed, including last year’s The Human Fear. The album garnered a good amount of praise from fans and critics alike, without ever really threatening to set the world on fire.