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Artist:
Kasabian
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: £7.99
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Product Description
KASABIAN Empire (Deleted 2006 UK limited edition 2-disc [CD/DVD] set - Co-produced with Jim Abbiss [Arctic Monkeys Editors Ladytron] Kasabians 2nd studio album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth. This set comprises the 11-track CDalbum featuring the singles Empire Shoot The Runner & Me Plus One. Complete with Bonus Region 0 PAL DVD including the Empire music video [with Making-of footage] and Documentary. Presented in individually numbered picturebox!)
Amazon.co.uk
'We're all wasting away!' barks vocalist Tom Meighan on the opening, title track to Kasabian's second album, Empire. A quick peek at the sales figures, however, proves that lean times are most certainly not on the horizon. After clocking up close to a million sales of their debut album, Leicester's post-baggy rock troupe have returned with an album that ramps up all their key hallmarks: the swagger of the Gallagher brothers, the wide-pupils euphoria of acid house/acid-rock, and the crushing, propulsive dancefloor heaviness of beered-up disco rabble-rousers Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim. From "Last Trip (In Flight)", a sort of gospel-enhanced remake of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine", to the driving, techno-engineered "Stuntman", it's heavy on the choruses, heavy on the fireworks, and seemingly custom-made for a festival crowd - which is, of course, no bad thing. "British Legion" is a surprising stand-out, an Lennon-esque ballad accompanied by acoustic guitar. And while the mystic-tinged "Sun/Rise/Light/Flies" suggests that shimmering Indian strings might be becoming as much of a cliché as the bolt-on orchestra was in Britpop times, you somehow doubt Kasabian are at all bothered by the prospect of being too obvious. After all, it's the job of Empire to stamp Kasabian's name onto your face with a hob-nailed boot, and it succeeds in its mission admirably. --Louis Pattison
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828768850220
Format: Box set, CD+DVD
Label: Columbia Records
Manufacturer: Columbia Records
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Columbia Records
Release Date: 2006-08-28
Studio: Columbia Records |
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