Pitchfork

A Glaswegian foursome with Paul Thomson on drums will release its new album in the UK on February 25, but it's not Franz Ferdinand. (They're still crafting their own picaresque journey^* of a new LP.)

Instead, the record comes from Correcto, the group Thomson plays in with Danny Saunders, the Royal We's Patrick Doyle, and artist Richard Wright. Just this week Domino released "Do It Better", the second single from the band's self-titled debut, and the label will follow with the album in a little over a week.

Correcto also have a handful of live dates coming up, starting with a show tomorrow night (February 16) in Glasgow.

Franz Ferdinand have a pair of festival shows as well, though they don't arrive until the summer.

* According to a MySpace blog post... "It sounds a bit like Sly and the Family Stone meets Prince in Govan on the way back fae signing on when Sly remembers he still owes Fela Kuti that fiver from last week when Fela tapped him at Brian Eno's birthday party in downtown Lagos but what with the exchange rate and everything he has to figure out how much he owes him in sterling, so he goes round to Jacques Brel's, cos Jacques' good with numbers. So he gets there and Jacques' in on youtube watching this...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=707VxB-ek4Q

and Sly says "Have you seen this....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MCNJt2hvTjw

...it's what that MIA song is based on you know, this one....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9_Dk_F98cU

and they don't get round to working out what 5 pounds is in Nigerian Naira and Fela comes round all angry and says, tell you what just forget about that fucking fiver, you're always like this and storms out in a right huff.

Something like that anyway."

Correcto:

01 Inuit
02 Do It Better
03 Joni
04 Save Your Sorrow
05 Walking to Town
06 No One Under 30
07 Here It Comes
08 Downs
09 Even Though
10 New Capitals
11 Something or Nothing
12 When You Get Away From Me

Correcto:

02-16 Glasgow, Scotland - Civic Bar Glasgow School of Art
02-28 Edinburgh, Scotland - Liquid Rooms
04-25 Edinburgh, Scotland - Cabaret Voltaire
04-26 Glasgow, Scotland - CCA
04-27 Aberdeen, Scotland - The Tunnels

Franz Ferdinand:

07-19 Ferropolis, Germany - Melt! Festival
08-07 Skanderborg, Denmark - Skanderborg Festival