Kevin Bronson on April 2nd, 2015

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More than a year after they first announced they would be collaborating, Scottish post-punk Franz Ferdinand and long-running L.A. provocateurs Sparks have revealed their first song as FFS. It’s titled “Piss Off,” the first song that brothers Ron and Russell Mael and the gang of Glaswegians — Bob Hardy, Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy and Paul Thomson — wrote together. In the press release announcing the FFS album — recorded over 15 days in 2014 and out June 9 via Domino — the music is described as a “fascinating mutation” between the two bands, and this first agitant seems to find that nether region. Says Kapranos: “The real motivation was to make something new, not ‘Franz featuring Russell Mael’, or ‘Sparks with Franz Ferdinand backing them.’” Adds Ron Mael: “You can’t chart what is Sparks and what is Franz Ferdinand. I think each band unconsciously relinquished a little of who they were in order to enter new territory.” Soon to come: the “first proper single.” There’s a song on the album titled “Collaborations Don’t Work,” so who knows what that might be.

||| Stream: “Piss Off”