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Happenings

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Kasabian have today revealed details of their 8th studio album ‘Happenings’ and also share new dance infused single ‘Call‘.

Sergio teased the album as psychedelic big hitters when the band announced their Victoria Park homecoming gig back last year but it’s only today that the full details have been unveiled.

‘Happings’ will be released on 5th July which is a day before their homecoming Summer solstice II in Leicester.

Pre-Order the album here: https://store.kasabian.co.uk/

Talking to NME about the single, Sergio Pizzorno sounded very excited about the direction saying,

“It was the first thing that went down. I had the riff towards the end of the last record. Certain riffs talk to you, and I was like, ‘Yes, there’s something special in this’. It informed how the whole record was going to be – these super tight, big tunes. It always felt like the first thing people should hear from the album. It’s such a unique tune. At the start of an album campaign, to have something that can only be Kasabian is important. I don’t really know what is, but I do feel like it just has those drops that will just go off in a live environment. Let’s start the year with a tune that gets everyone excited for the summer.

“I love that Balearic switch-up in the second half of the song. It’s really quite funky at the start, then it goes floaty and takes you somewhere else. It still bangs, but you’re like, ‘Holy shit, now I’m floating away’. In a really short space of time, it takes you a journey which is really fucking cool.”

Going on to talk about the album Serge said,

“It’s very much an album that can only be made today. 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.

“Every track has its own world. The track ‘Bird In A Cage’ has a Trent Reznor thing going on, has a Britney Spears thing going on, has a Beatles thing going on, has a Prince thing going on, then ‘Hell Of It’ has a J Dilla meets Justin Timberlake/Timbaland 2002 thing, then it goes into Parliament and Funkadelic, plus there’s some 1970s Nigerian funk.”

Tracklisting for the album is as follows:

‘Darkest Lullaby’
‘Call’
‘How Far Will You Go’
‘Coming Back To Me Good‘
‘G.O.A.T.’
‘Passengers’
‘The Hell Of It’
‘Italian Horror’
‘Bird In A Cage’
‘Algorithms’

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