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Is it a hit, *hit or miss?
Kasabian - Kasabian 
by Eric Bodrero



Kasabian - Kasabian
Label: RCA
Hit, *hit or Miss?:  Miss
Rating

Kasabian has a sound that is instantly familiar to those who grew up listening to such bands as Happy Mondays, Stereo MC�s, Soup Dragons, and Primal Scream. With dance club beats and repetitive, sing-a-long lyrics, I doubt there is a single teenage-ridden dance hall to be found in England that isn�t playing one or more tracks from this self-titled debut. 

Hailing from Leicester, England, Kasabian is also the next victim in the car commercial sellout game (check out the new Pontiac commercials), with �Club Foot� leading the charge. I remember telling myself awhile back that I would never claim a band as my own who make it on a TV commercial (okay, I still love The Cure and Modest Mouse), but who has ever heard of Kasabian, other than sweat-sprinkled rave-a-holics from London? 

There are a few really dynamic tracks to be heard here, such as �L.S.F�, �Cutt Off�, �Processed Beats�, and �Reason Is Treason�, but the rest of the tracks seem like obligatory, electronic, experimental filler fluff, making Kasabian appear to be about as transparent as a jellyfish. With no sense of original style, music-by-numbers engineering, and quite an inquisitive knack for ripping off early 90�s alternative U.K. bands, Kasabian looks to be riding on the overcrowded one-hit wonder bus down a one-way street. Next stop: obscurity. 
 



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Tracks:
  1. Club Foot 
  2. Processed Beats 
  3. Reason Is Treason 
  4. I.D. 
  5. Orange 
  6. L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever) 
  7. Running Battle 
  8. Test Transmission 
  9. Pinch Roller 
  10. Cutt Off 
  11. Butcher Blues 
  12. Ovary Stripe 
  13. U Boat 

 

 

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