Kasabian: Kasabian

I've had this album for a while, but I never listened to it. For some reason, I thought this was some soft-assed pop-rock. After finally throwing it on the iPod, I was happy to find it wasn't such.

The first track, Club Foot, made me think I was in for some sort of Filter/Crystal Method combiination, but that trend didn't extend.

The album is definitely more on the rock side, which is good. Most tracks have, at least, a small amount of vocal distortion, which adds an interesting effect with the way the instruments have been mixed/produced/played.

What I particularly like about this album is its hard enough that you can deinfitely be drawn into it for a sonic explosion, but not so hard that you can't ignore it just enough to have it feel ambient, very background. Its an interesting duality, but I enjoy it.

Club Foot, Processed Beats, L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever), and Butcher Blues (which actually gives me a bit of a Massive Attack feeling) are, in my thoughts, the best of the album.

In the end: This is a surprisingly solid album. Its foray into the processed nature of music is bound to turn off many people, but if you give this a listen, you'll find yourself bopping your head to more than one track.