Kasabian – Velociraptor (2011)

01. Let's Roll Just Like We Used To 04:47
02. Days Are Forgotten 05:02
03. Goodbye Kiss 04:04
04. La Fee Verte 05:47
05. Velociraptor! 02:51								play
06. Acid Turkish Bath (Shelter From The Storm) 06:01
07. I Hear Voices 03:58
08. Re-wired 04:44
09. Man Of Simple Pleasures 03:51					play
10. Switchblade Smiles 04:13
11. Neon Noon 05:20

 
Bonus DVD

01 – Julie And The Moth Man
02 – Underdog
03 – Where Did All The Love Go
04 – Swarfiga
05 – Shoot The Runner
06 – Cutt Off
07 – Processed beats
08 – West Ryder Silver Bullet
09 – Thick As Thieves
10 – Take Aim
11 – Empire
12 – Last Trip (In Flight)
13 – I.D.
14 – Ladies And Gentlemen (Roll The Dice)
15 – Fire
16 – Fast Fuse
17 – The Doberman
18 – Club Foot
19 – Vlad The Impaler
20 – Stuntman
21 – L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)

Personnel
    Tom Meighan – lead vocals
    Sergio Pizzorno – guitars, backing vocals, synthesizer, bass
    Chris Edwards – bass
    Ian Matthews – drums
    Dan the Automator – record producer
    Jay Mehler - additional guitar

Kasabian have trumpeted their fourth album with the usual eyebrow-raising chutzpah about it being a classic, but there's no denying the band have expanded their sound ever further from its lad-rock roots. There's a flamenco feel to many of the tracks, which is hardly familiar fare for four blokes from Leicester. Opener Let's Roll Just Like We Used To echoes the Last Shadow Puppets via Love. La Fee Verte nods to Slade's wistful ballads circa the classic In Flame soundtrack. Only the title track and Re-wired reassert the huge, numbskull electro-rock anthems that made their name. There are, as usual, misfires – Switchblade Smiles sounds like cumbersome big beat from a decade or more ago – but the best tracks here are the most unlikely. Neon Neon is a beautifully existential contemplation of the passage of time. The sublime ballad Goodbye Kiss is even reminiscent of (gulp) Gene Pitney, delivered with the wistful romanticism of rapidly maturing thirtysomething fathers. It's the sound of a band growing in confidence and mapping out their future. --- Dave Simpson, guardian.co.uk

Kasabian’s big PR problem is they’ve never had a Pulp-like wit about them, and their ability to communicate the human condition has been limited to drug trip visions and fist-pumping hippie lyrics that come off as Shaun Ryder-lite. Plus, an Oasis-esque hunger for arena domination just oozes out of this band, so they’re firmly in the “love ‘em or hate ‘em” category, and never more so than on Velociraptor! Here, they’ve got the audacity to open their album with a gong, which gives way to a Mexican trumpet riff, a funky, spy-movie bassline, and production that screams “mod!” That’s possibly the most convoluted way to go “back to basics,” as the opening “Let's Roll Just Like We Used To” infers, but Kasabian have been a band of post-Brit-pop possibilities from the get go, so bringing in techno, ethnic sounds, and an orchestra is coming home for this impudent crew. The hurdle that must be jumped is that wild ideas sometimes take precedence over great ideas, but everything is shaped into a winner thanks to the group’s undying allegiance to the groove. It icky thumps like White Stripes on the gutsy “Re-Wired” and peaks the meters on the Chemical Brothers-like title track. If the bold lyrics don’t always work, the hooks cover that up just fine, and even as everything and two kitchen sinks are thrown at the listener -- productions shifts and epic constructions abound -- the album is right-sized, laying the whole circus out in 11 tracks and pulling up stakes right before the audience tires of the spectacle. Megaton beats still mix well with high-flying, Gallagher brothers-styled melodies, so anyone who wished “Setting Sun” would have supernova’d into an album will have no problem embracing this one. --- David Jeffries, allmusic.com

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