"Stand on the Horizon" is a song by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand. It was released as the sixth single from the band's fourth studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, on 28 July 2014. The song was written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy, recorded during 2013, and produced by Kapranos and Norwegian DJ Todd Terje. The music video for the song was released on 3 August 2014, was directed by Karan Kandhari, and was posted on the band's Vevo channel on YouTube.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine:
Composition "Stand on the Horizon" features indie rock and disco-punk. The song was written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy and produced by Kapranos and Norwegian DJ Todd Terje. The song was labeled by Kapranos as something neither Franz Ferdinand or Terje have done before. He also called the ending of the song "a beautiful, uplifting piece of music". The song is sampled over the opening credits to the U.S./Canadian situation comedy Loudermilk.
Track listing
Personnel Personnel adapted from the album's liner notes
Franz Ferdinand Alex Kapranos Nick McCarthy Bob Hardy Paul Thomson
Additional musicians Owen Pallett - strings and string arrangement
Production Alex Kapranos – mixing, pre-production, production Ch4in$ - pre-production Mark Ralph - engineering and mixing Todd Terje - engineering, mixing, and production
Charts Chart (2013) Peakposition
Release history Region Date Label Format United Kingdom 28 July 2014 Domino Digital download CD-R
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