Kasabian – Velociraptor (2011) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

“Velociraptor!” is the fourth studio album by English rock band Kasabian, released in September 2011. The album has been described as expanding upon the neo-psychedelic feel of their previous album “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum” with a stronger emphasis on experimental song structures and instrumentation. It was released to critical acclaim and became their third UK number-one album, its lead single “Days Are Forgotten”. Q magazine listed “Re-Wired” as the number 1 track to download in their October 2011 issue.

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

Tracklist:
01 – Let’s Roll Just Like We Used To
02 – Days Are Forgotten (Album Version)
03 – Goodbye Kiss
04 – La Fee Verte
05 – Velociraptor!
06 – Acid Turkish Bath (Shelter from the Storm)
07 – I Hear Voices
08 – Re-Wired
09 – Man of Simple Pleasures
10 – Switchblade Smiles
11 – Neon Noon

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