Kasabian have shared the latest teaser of their upcoming album, in the form of ‘Darkest Lullaby’ – watch the ‘70s gangster movie-inspired video below.
The Leicester band’s eighth album ‘Happenings’ is coming out on July 5, with the singles ‘Call’ and ‘Coming Back To Me Good’ having been released earlier in the year.
The video for ‘Darkest Lullaby’ – directed by the duo Bedroom (The 1975, Arlo Parks) – finds the band playing characters in a trailer for a fictional ’70s grindhouse B-movie, complete with gunfights, drugs and violence.
Watch it here:
Frontman Serge Pizzorno has said: “’Darkest Lullaby’ is based on a long-lost film from the 1970s – the music video is the trailer for this fictional film that was never made. It was shot and made by a rag tag bunch of artists having the time of their lives.”
The indie veterans first revealed that their “psychedelic” new album of “big hitters” was on the way last year, at the same time that they announced details of a huge homecoming gig
They will headline Summer Solstice II on Saturday July 6 in a return to Victoria Park, having previously played an outdoor gig there 10 years ago.
The new LP will be the follow-up to 2022’s ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’ and their second since the exit of Tom Meighan. It was written at Pizzorno’s home studio, The Sergery, and features Mark Ralph (Zara Larsson, Clean Bandit, Rudimental) as co-producer.
Speaking to NME earlier this year about the making of the album, Pizzorno continued the cinematic theme by likening the process to a “well-executed bank heist”. “The rules were the same for each track: to keep it tight and around three minutes,” he explained.
“You know if you’ve got the greatest crack team of bank robbers in the world, right? The best guy with explosives, the best guy with maps, all that assembled. They plan the heist, they get in, they get out, bang, they get away with no police chase or anything. Before anyone knows it, the diamonds are gone – that is this record. It’s a well-executed bank heist. We’re in, we’re out, we’re done, and you’re left going, ‘Holy shit, how the fuck did they do that?’ I don’t know myself!”
“It’s very much an album that can only be made today,” he continued. “The influences are there, but it’s been made with the tools that I have around me now. It’s a really simple sentiment. Every section has to be a chorus and demand attention for the whole album. It’s relentless in its course.”
“I was always trying to make guitar music interesting. I don’t even know what you’d call our band. Are we a rock band? This time I was really into pop structure and making everything super clean and punchy – taking those kooky, crazy, weird sounds and making them hit like a modern record.”
As for upcoming gigs, as well as their return to Victoria Park, the band have also locked in a headline slot at this year’s Latitude festival. Visit here for remaining tickets to their upcoming live dates.
They are also rumoured to be the special guests on the Woodsies Stage at Glastonbury next week. This has not been confirmed, but bookmakers William Hill have suspended bets on the band filling the ‘TBA’ slot on the Saturday evening.