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Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
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| Teaming up with Gorillaz producer Dan "the Automator" Nakamura to hammer out their third album, these glammy Brit yobs try to revise the churning, sweatin'-to-the-'90s club beats that propelled their star-making (in the U.K.) 2004 debut. Twitchy, action-movie atmospherics still galvanize the thrust of "Fast Fuse" and lead single "Vlad the Impaler." But between the groovier tracks, the album rarely keeps its feet or focus for long, getting lost in mazes of mangy Stones riffs or acoustic roundabouts with little purpose or pulse....full text |
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band, theirs will be an odd tale of two Noels. The first is big uncle Gallagher, looking to pass his baton to the mouthy Leicester lads who are wilder than Arctic Monkeys, and who, unlike our kid Liam, don't think Spinal Tap were a real band. So in homage, West Ryder's lunatic opener, Underdog, is classic 90s "mad for it" material - a heady bellyful of Happy Mondays that is followed by the glam-rock Where Did All the Love Go? Not unlike their last album Empire, in short. Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum Columbia 2009 Primal Scream and Stone Roses influences also remain, but looming larger is the second Noel. Namely, the Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding, who plays a daft vampire slayer in the video to Vlad the Impaler. Fielding's presence reveals the band's experimental side, which, thanks to Gorillaz producer Dan the Automator, comes to the fore on West Ryder. So Take Aim has gypsy violins, Secret Alphabets' filmic feel is more Tarkovsky than Tarantino, and Fast Fuse is a fine 60s-style stomp....full text |
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Who’s that on the cover? Napoleon, a priest, a prisoner and, um, is that meant to be Henry VIII? It’s the occupants of ‘The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ no doubt, celebrating Kasabian’s return and their luxuriously titled third album. As suspected, it’s a concept album (like the title wasn’t a giveaway – prog-rock-schooled Ed). No bad thing in itself, but an approach that has upended many a band. Musical ringleader Serge Pizzorno has admitted that it’s intended as the soundtrack to an imaginary movie. Not any movie, mind, but bizzaro stuff like Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Holy Mountain’. Believe me, it’s worth a watch – but don’t expect it to make any sense....full text |
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