Franz Ferdinand are gearing up to release their long awaited third album, and Alex Kapranos revealed onstage last night (October 8th) that it will be called 'Tonight'.

They are currently touring American, where they have taken the time to publicly support US presidential candidate Barack Obama. It was during a recent show in Brooklyn at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg that Kapranos let slip that their new album might be called 'Tonight'.

Franz Ferdinand played six new songs during the show, including 'Bit Hard', 'Turn It On' and 'Katherine, Kiss Me'. Other new songs performed at the show include 'Ulysses' and 'What She Came For' - both of which have been mooted as possible lead singles from the album.

Franz Ferdinand's third album was produced by Dan Carey, and features a host of surprises. The band revealed to MTV that they even used a human skeleton as percussion, Alex Kapranos explained that "I remember we were working on a song called and we wanted to have a real dry, percussive sound in the chorus. And we had this skeleton in a box that just ended up sitting in the corner of the studio, and we all sort of looked at it, and decided to experiment with it."

"Nick (McCarthy) had the hands and was clapping the bones together. Paul (Thomson) was working with the pelvis bone and a femur. We put the teeth in a glass jar and rattled that about. We smacked the ribs together and we got this really weird, fucked-up kind of a sound that was wicked. I can't think of any records with human bones on it."

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