The mighty Kasabian will release the first single from their eagerly anticipated forthcoming album ‘Velociraptor!’, on September 11th though Columbia.
“Have you had enough; are you feeling rough?” poses Tom Meighan in gargantuan new single ‘Days Are Forgotten’, his trademark swagger in tow. An incendiary mix of spoken word, amplified vocals and stadium-sized riffs, ‘Days Are Forgotten’ is a primordial sonic beast, written and produced by Kasabian’s Serge.
‘Days Are Forgotten’ also features as the soundbed for the new Sky Sports football season TV ad where Kasabian take on a team of Sky Sports pundits. Serge scores, but Kasabian lose!
The follow-up to the acclaimed ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’, which sold nearly a million copies, ‘Velociraptor!’ was recorded in Leicester and mixed in San Francisco. Written and produced by Serge, ‘Velociraptor!’ is a major leap forward from Britain’s biggest band. “West Ryder was our Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake. Everything about it was perfect,” says Serge. “But we’ve done that now and it’s time to move on. We’ve upped the stakes.”
Inspiration for the new album arrived late one night at Serge’s new home, deep in the Leicestershire countryside. “I’ve got this old jukebox and one night I was up until six am and it kept spitting out these great tunes, anything from Elvis to the Chemical Brothers,” he explains. “I was like, wow, imagine if you had an album like that, which you could put on at any time of the day or night and it would just throw out one great tune after another. I knew it was massively ambitious, but if we could do it the results could be incredible.”
Kasabian are guitarist Sergio Pizzorno, singer Tom Meighan, bassist Chris Edwards and drummer Ian Matthews.
New single ‘Switchblade Smiles’ is currently available as an instant download from www.kasabian.co.uk and LP ‘Velociraptor!’ is released September 19th.
