Kasabian
I heard about Kasabian via The Independent, of all places. But lines like…
“Rock’n'roll lost its imagination and electronica had no soul, so we married the two together,” explains the songwriter Sergio Pizzorno, before struggling to spit out the word “innovation” to some laughter from his bandmates. “If you can sing a song with an acoustic guitar, then it’s a song, but it’s up to you to see how far you can take it,” he adds, referring to Kasabian’s open-ended recording methods, where each member might play any instrument, just like Primal Scream (”Old rockers, aren’t they?”).
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Catchy singles such as “Reason Is Treason”, “Club Foot” and the soon-to-be-reissued “Processed Beats” have been well received, but the band’s image has been skilfully manipulated, with impressive graphics and the occasional inspired video. The clip for “Club Foot”, filmed in an old army base in Budapest, managed to conflate Cold War dissidence with the ancient rock-as-an-opposition-force thing. But it looked good, and even ended with a dedication to Jan Palach, the Czech philosophy student who immolated himself in protest at the Soviet invasion of 1968.
… piqued my interest enough to pop over to Amazon and was it worth it or was it worth it. These lads are incredible.
Songs like Club Foot, Processed Beats, Reason is Treason and L.S.F. are catchy, uptempo and damn good.
The dual disk DVD/CD also has the videos for Reason is Treason (which is spectaclarly surreal), Club Foot and L.S.F. (which I enjoyed for all the obvious reasons) as well as a couple of ‘Making Of…’ videos and a short film.
All in all, Kasabian are a great band with a great first album to their name.
Sunday 19 Sep 2004 | Paul | Music
