Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos has been speaking to 6Music about The Cribs' forthcoming new album, which he is producing. Speaking about how work on the new long player is progressing, Kapranos revealed that Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has provided guest spoken word vocals on a track called 'Be Safe', saying: "He went through a few different takes and there was a little bit of juxtaposing different sets of texts together which worked really well. He was a real joy to work with".
On his decision to get involved in the production of the LP, Kapranos continued: "I knew it was something I wanted to do at some point, production like this, but I didn't know it would happen so soon. The timing was perfect! Franz had just finished touring and we weren't going to get together to write for a while and I couldn't think of a band I'd want to go into a studio with more than these guys. I like their company and I love their music".