by Oliver on March 13, 2024 in Album
Ricky Wilson and Co. work with (the admittedly humorously titled) Kaiser Chiefs‘ Easy Eighth Album hard on that Stay Together from 2016 does not remain the lowlight of the in-house discography.
The basic staging arrangements for this are irritating: Ricky Wilson doesn’t sound like a difficult birth at all Duck-Successors rarely look after themselves (least of all, of course, in those contaminated by autotune effects Beautiful Girlwhich gives more of a vague idea of what one is like Green Day-Demo from the keyboard can at the simple intersection Kasabian and Weezer could casually trivialize); and the Kaiser Chiefs themselves hardly create a band feeling but act more like a cheap construction kit, especially since the sound of album number 8 is fundamentally quite inconsistent – mostly thin and not finding a consistent level in terms of mix or stylistic basis.
To get straight to the point: the record’s aimlessly trying to please, incredibly boring production costs at least one point in the final evaluation at this point. Because in this starting position, the 29 minutes are only partially entertaining Kaiser Chiefs‘ Easy Eighth Album like a half-baked tumbling between the band’s unpleasant (but not given up) disco ambitions and their indie rock roots, which have long since only been harmlessly gotten to grips with.
The loose one (which won thanks to Nile Rodgers, but runs far too long as an example) Feeling Alright on the one hand, as well as the cheaper, more annoying and more striking ones How 2 Dance (roughly where stiff format radio listeners imagine youthful parties in exuberant holiday resorts inspired by well-behaved Hollywood films) set the mood with banal cliché texts, which is why the catchy, kitschy, melodramatic look for strings (and simply abruptly turned off) Burning in Flames as a somehow catchy catchy single does its disco thing better, while the Hak Baker clusterfuck The Job Centre Shuffle the previously offered funk somewhere in between Arctic Monkeys-meets-Mando Diao-Imitation and saxophone gimmick messed up.
Reasons to Stay Alive On the other hand, stomps nowhere without a punchline as a danceable rocker, while the completely irrelevant pop of Jealousy practically forgotten while listening and Sentimental Love Songs plays nonchalantly and non-committally in the lounge. Mr. Gallagher probably won’t find it worth his while to complain about something as harmless as this Noel Groove To be dismissive, this elevator version of Britpop is simply far too unimportant. Staged too shallowly, too superficially and half-baked, the central motif may also be engaging in itself. There’s just no noticeable energy, the motivation just evaporates, even though it’s never really grotesquely bad Kaiser Chiefs‘ Easy Eighth Album Overall, at best, it serves as background sound or a gap-filling potpourri.
That’s why you can in the nice gesture of brotherhood The Lads perhaps also the reminder that (here exceptionally through one of two or three choruses on the album that really stick) a little hook idea Kaiser Chiefs It’s now enough to create a song that’s resistant to development and has no fulfilling prospects, and to offer it for sale in a casual, babbling, smooth way, far away from an enthusiastically gripping momentum – but also the conciliatory inkling that the knack for deeply simple instant catchy tunes is still there, at least to some extent – however Amir Amor was simply the absolute wrong choice of person in the producer’s chair to promote it.
Unfortunately, at the end of the day, it’s all hardly fun at the moment. So it’s good in a way that the British are portrayed so far away from themselves, almost without identity, that you never get the feeling that they are Kaiser Chiefs With their eighth album they would tell a joke at their own expense and thus make a self-persifal.
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