Kasabian - In Love With A Psycho

1. Who are Kasabian? 

Kasabian are an indie rock/dance band from Leicester, England, making music since 1997. The band are commercially successful with their last four albums making it to number one in the U.K. album charts. In Love With A Psycho (March’17) is the first single from their sixth album For Crying Out Loud (April’17). 


2. What have they got? 

In Love With A Psycho is radio-friendly meh that grows on you insidiously. A hummable chorus that becomes a bit of an earworm. Playlist filler.


3. Who do Kasabian sound like?

They are often compared to Primal Scream, The Stone Roses, and The Happy Mondays.

4. What have people said about In Love With A Psycho?  

“A sweet and hypnotic single” – 411 Mania.

“A naggingly catchy perfect pop tune” – Louder Than War.

“Amiable and still enjoyable” – The Edge.

5. Which bands have inspired Kasabian? 

Key influences on this album are Public Enemy, Bruce Springsteen and The Stooges. Elsewhere they have mentioned Oasis and Led Zeppelin as big influences.

6. Why should I listen to In Love With A Psycho? 

Because it's a good 'un. Because it's a gateway to better Kasabian songs.

7. What are Kasabian's best songs?

Comeback Kid, an album track from the new album, is a sublime retro-sixties banger. Bumblebee has swagger and a taint breaking chorus. From there it's "hey diddle diddle and straight down the middle" with two of their breakthrough hits from their debut album; Club Foot and Eez-Eh. 

8. Any more words?

Kasabian guitarist, Serge Pizzorno, wrote and produced For Crying Out Loud. 

Time To Change, a mental health organization in England, weren’t thrilled with Kasabian’s choice of lyrics saying they had used a “sad and tired” stereotype.

“Jibber, jabber, at the bargain booze,

And reciting Charles Bukowski, I got nothing to lose”

Shortstraw are a popular indie rock band from Johannesburg, South Africa. They have been making music since 2007 and have made three albums. Shortstraw sound like Good Charlotte, New Politics and Al Bairre. They are influenced by Foals, Paul Simon and Taking Back Sunday. Keep It In The Family (Nov'16) is the third single from the mini-album Those Meddling Kids (March'17). Keep It In The Family is mosh-pit filling, pop punk, with a stone to throw at absent fathers.

“Go tell your father in Santiago,
I got his daughter tied to my tree”

The Creases - Everybody Knows

1.    Who are they?

The Creases are an indie rock band from Brisbane, Australia. They started playing in 2013. Everybody Knows (Jan’17) is the lead single from their debut album Tremelow (2017). 

2. What kind of song is Everybody Knows? 

Sunshiny, revivalist, pop-rock with a foot in both English pop from the sixties and English indie rock from the 80's and 90's. The chorus is sugar. 

3.  Who do The Creases sound like? 

Pop Cult, Primal Scream and The Happy Mondays. 

4. What is the good word from the press? 

“Incredibly infectious” – Mushroom.  

“An instant classic” – Liberation.

 “Contagious energy” – Best Before.

5. Which bands have inspired The Creases?

Some of The Creases' main influences are The Beatles, Pulp, Echo & Bunnymen, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Blur. 

6. Why should I give Everybody Knows a listen? 

Because you love English indie rock from the late 80's and 90's. 

7. What are The Creases best songs?

Impact is the best one; like Everybody Knows but with a killer choral chorus and some brass.

8. Any more words? 

The Creases are signed to Rough Trade and have supported Franz Ferdinand, The Preatures, PEACE, The Jungle Giants and Ball Park Music. 

“I’m getting out of this place”

The Cat Empire are an Australian ska, jazz, funk, rock fusion band with Latin influences. They are from Melbourne, Australia, and formed in 1999. The Cat Empire have six albums pinned on their battle honors. Bulls is the third single from their sixth album The Rising Sun (2016). The Rising Sun debuted at number one in the Australian charts and the critics favorite song was Bulls, a song Faster Louder described as “a super riffy festival number with a punk-hoe-down outro.”

A bedouin told me,

‘The Bomb is a rhythm’ ”

Pop Cult - Feels Right

1.    Who are these foot soldiers of rock’n’roll?

Pop Cult are an indie rock band from Queensland, Australia. Feels Right (March'16) is the second single to soar off their as yet unnamed debut EP.


2. What’s cooking?

Feels Right slides along all retro trippy English inde vibes, heavy bass and background guitar flourishes. The chorus steps it on up and it goes a little gospel in the breakdown with handclaps. Familar but new.


3. Who do Pop Cult sound like?

Primal Scream, Teenage Fan Club and a splash of The Happy Mondays. Rolling Stone Australia were feeling Oasis and The Who. Trippers.


4. What have the press said about Feels Right?

“On the fast track to become Aussie indie rock royalty” – AAA Backstage.

“Oozing early 90’s rock, easy guitars and gospel type harmonies” – Rabbit Radio.

“The chorus is an absolute belter” – Adam Not Eve.

5. Which bands put the belt into Pop Cult’s belters?

Pop Cult’s main influences are The Velvet Undergound, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub and Electric Light Orchestra.


6. Why should I give Feels Right a rumble?

Feels Right pushes all the right retro-nineties buttons with fresh excitement and a message about rising up for the good fight.


7. Do Pop Cult have any more good ones?

The first single Gotta Keep Lovin' is a lovely little number with more easy-going English indie stylings.


8. Any more words?

Elliot Heinrich has said Feels Right is a “gospel jam, with a subversive social commentary. We’re encouraged to be passive and accept the way things are, but our generation have more power than ever to question and change things.”
 

“Do what feels wrong until it feels right”

Primal Scream are an indie rock band from Glascow, Scotland. Formed in 1982 they have eleven long players in the vault and are still going strong. Screamadelica (1991) is their most popular album, selling 3 million copies, and Movin On Up is track one on the album. Pitchfork called Movin’ On Up an “immense dance-rock single” and Sreamadelica “half strutting with confidence, half yearning for transcendence.”

“I’m moving on up now, getting out of the darkness”