- Label
- Columbia
- Release date
- 8th June 2009
- Genre
- Rock
- Buy this album
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Oasis’s pals step inside the sonic time tunnel.
In the late sixites every other band released psychedelic concept albums with ridiculously long titles and fancy dress covers. The practice wore off, along with the LSD around about 1972 and album titling these days has been reduced to calling your fourth album Fourth. Shame.
Congratulations then to Leicester nutjobs Kasabian who have stepped into a veritable Mr Benn’s changing room of the mind and emerged with an album that rather amazingly straddles the two worlds of 1969 and 2009.
There’s much to admire here, those in search of the strident sons of The Stone Roses festival shufflers the band have made there own will be rewarded with a trio of songs (Underdog, Fire, Vlad The Impaler) that easily sit alongside Shoot The Runner and LSF but the most pleasing aspect of West Ryder is that it holds together as an album and the surreal lyrics and sonic experiments (distorted mariachi trumpets plus John Lydon impression on Take Aim, Enio Morricone plus Steptoe & Son theme tune on West Rider Silver Bullet) actually work and make this a far more intriguing album than most.
They need to go further to be as good as they are in their heads but the signs are good that they’ll get there.
More to try:
The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
The Four Seasons: The Genuine Life Gazette
Primal Scream: Xtrmntr
Public Image Limited: Public Image
