Is it a hit, *hit or miss?
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Kasabian
- Kasabian
by Eric Bodrero
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Kasabian
- Kasabian
Label: RCA
Hit, *hit or
Miss?: Miss
Rating:  
Kasabian has a sound that is instantly
familiar to those who grew up listening to such bands as Happy Mondays,
Stereo MC’s, Soup Dragons, and Primal Scream. With dance club beats and
repetitive, sing-a-long lyrics, I doubt there is a single teenage-ridden
dance hall to be found in England that isn’t playing one or more tracks
from this self-titled debut.
Hailing from Leicester, England, Kasabian
is also the next victim in the car commercial sellout game (check out the
new Pontiac commercials), with “Club Foot” leading the charge. I remember
telling myself awhile back that I would never claim a band as my own who
make it on a TV commercial (okay, I still love The Cure and Modest Mouse),
but who has ever heard of Kasabian, other than sweat-sprinkled rave-a-holics
from London?
There are a few really dynamic tracks to
be heard here, such as “L.S.F”, “Cutt Off”, “Processed Beats”, and “Reason
Is Treason”, but the rest of the tracks seem like obligatory, electronic,
experimental filler fluff, making Kasabian appear to be about as transparent
as a jellyfish. With no sense of original style, music-by-numbers engineering,
and quite an inquisitive knack for ripping off early 90’s alternative U.K.
bands, Kasabian looks to be riding on the overcrowded one-hit wonder bus
down a one-way street. Next stop: obscurity.
CD Info and Links
Tracks:
1. Club Foot
2. Processed Beats
3. Reason Is Treason
4. I.D.
5. Orange
6. L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)
7. Running Battle
8. Test Transmission
9. Pinch Roller
10. Cutt Off
11. Butcher Blues
12. Ovary Stripe
13. U Boat |
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