osing a lead singer is always going to be a tough hurdle for a band to overcome, but it seemed particularly difficult in Kasabian’s case. As has often been pointed out, they were always a far weirder band than their laddish following might have led you to believe.
And something of this dichotomy at the heart of the band seemed to be embodied in the relationship between their bullish vocalist Tom Meighan and the noticeably more softly spoken guitarist and songwriter Serge Pizzorno.
Happenings, however, presents listeners with a distinctive musical shift. Co-produced by Mark Ralph – best known for his work with Clean Bandit, Jax Jones and Years & Years – it occasionally feels like Pizzorno’s distortion-laden equivalent of Coldplay’s Max Martin-assisted pivot towards pop. If that’s not a comparison you suspect is going to go down terribly well with Kasabian themselves , it does seem weirdly apropos.
Kasabian’s Serge Pizzorno: ‘I’m not an extrovert; I’m a songwriter. Now I’m the frontman of this huge band’is spectacularly punchy and well-produced, but it’s all impressive dynamic shifts and no actual song. You can see what they’re driving at on How Far Will You Go? – which frantically amps up both the speed and the sonic scale of the motorik rhythm pioneered by Pizzorno’s beloved Neu! – yet the end result doesn’t really click.
That said, you have to admire Kasabian’s restlessness and desire to press forward: the easy thing to do would be to keep reassuring fans unsettled by the upheavals of the last four years that everything is essentially as it ever was.
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