The Second Music Review: Kasabian

Hope everyone enjoyed my first post on bands we have been listening to while making the new record. I thought I would talk about another band that we have been listening to a good deal and that is Kasabian.

I had heard of Kasabian before but I was only familiar with one of their songs called 'Shoot the Runner'. I had caught them by accident on an episode of Abbey Road Live on the sundance channel performing the song.

I really owe listening to Kasabian to my friend Mike who has been a fan of theirs for awhile now. Although Jimi had a couple of there albums himself, he never really talked about them very much as an influnence. Anyway I got their newest release 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'. Let me just say I am gald I did too!

First off I want to say I chose this as my album of the year for 2009. No other record I heard in 2009 came close in my opinion to this record. Top to bottom it is just brilliant.

Imagine if you will that the Beatles had kept making music all of these years. I really believe they would have made an album that sounded like this. Pop melodies and structures over simple beats & riffs.

As a huge fan of the Beatles their influence on Kasabian is hard not to notice, but I think its the way they go about that is so unique.

Most electronic and looped based music lacks those types of melodies and harmonies. The music is more about the beat then anything else. Kasabian to me was able to take the melodic structure of the song and put the beats underneath it in a way I have never heard before.

It really inspired me to start thinking in that same way. How can we put these differents beats and sounds in our music but keep all of the pop structure.

This has lead to lots of experimenting and craziness in the studio! haha It has been a lot of fun to play with this idea of electronic music without it being electronic music. Confused yet, yeah me too, but it has inspired us to look past the ways we have made music in the past.

For that I am thankful.