"Stand on the Horizon" is a song by Scottish

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band Franz Ferdinand. It was released as the sixth single from the band's fourth studio album, ''

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'', on 28 July 2014. The song was written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy, recorded during 2013, and produced by Kapranos and Norwegian DJ

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. The music video for the song was released on 3 August 2014, was directed by

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, and was posted on the band's

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channel on YouTube.

Composition

"Stand on the Horizon" features

and

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. The song was written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy and produced by Kapranos and Norwegian DJ

. 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 – lead vocals, guitar, composing, mixing, pre-production, and production * Nick McCarthy – backing vocals, rhythm guitar, and keyboards * Bob Hardy – bass guitar * Paul Thomson – drums ;Production personnel *Ch4in$ - pre-production *Owen Pallett - strings and string arrangement *Mark Ralph - engineering and mixing *Todd Terje - engineering, mixing, and production

Charts

Release history

References

{{Franz Ferdinand 2013 songs 2014 singles Franz Ferdinand (band) songs Songs written by Alex Kapranos Songs written by Nick McCarthy Domino Recording Company singles