Tom Meighan, Kasabian (Photo: Live4ever)
Ahead of the imminent release of ‘Velociraptor!’, Kasabian have been looking back on the success of its predecessor ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum‘, claiming that record marked them out as a big selling ‘avant-garde’ band.
“You look at the album cover and then the album title itself — and it’s just not meant to work, but it did. It gave us a new audience and a new belief,” guitarist and chief songwriter Serge Pizzorno told The Sun newspaper’s SFTW supplement.
“We’re just not your average pop band — we’re avant-garde yet we’ve sold nearly a million records on each album in England. Now that’s a serious amount of records and not just those who buy records at Tesco.”
Meanwhile, frontman Tom Meighan was in a typically excitable mood regarding their new LP, declaring it a ‘monster’.
“This is one massive album,” he enthused. “These tunes are killers. If there’s one thing we know it’s that this is a monster of an album.”
‘Velociraptor!’ is due for release on September 16th.