Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Kasabian
Kasabian
(Arista, 2004)
In search of space? Leicester's mob rockers will take you there...
The first time I saw Kasabian's Tom Meighan he was lunging across a crummy East London stage sporting a John Lennon-Pepper-era moustache and a tight-fit polo neck. Bobbie Gillespie looked on from one corner of the room. Someone who might have been a Kaiser Chief stood at the bar. It was that sort of place. Arms raised to the heavens, Meighan looked like he'd just walked out in front of a sold-out Wembley Stadium. Every time I hear tracks from Kasabian's debut I can't help but picture this scene. Compared to the layered expanses of Empire and West Ryder... Kasabian is a crisp, lean call-to-arms, that drills straight to the heart of the Meighan/Pizzorno partnership. As indebted to the likes of Nightmares On Wax and DJ Shadow as it is to Primal Scream and Hawkwind, it is the sound of Tom'n'Serge falling in love with music over and over again. During the pugilistic bass quakes of Club Foot (still their most exciting creation), L.S.F and Cutt Off, their minds are blown; the atmospheric hypnotics of Running Battle, Butcher Blues and Test Transmission are after-hours exhalations of "I just can't stop losin' control". Each track hints at an alternate reality where space travel is free and Amon Düül II rule the airwaves. This has remained their manifesto and it's served them very well indeed. Five years and three albums down the line, Meighan walked out on the stage at Wembley Stadium, arms raised to the heavens. Thankfully, minus the moustache.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 12/02/2010
Further Listening
Hawkwind - In Search Of Space (United Artists, 1971)
DJ Shadow - Entroducing... (Mo'Wax, 1996)
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR (Creation, 2002)
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