The follow up to the critically acclaimed Kasabian album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum will be out in the fall and have a track included reminiscent of KurtCobain’s grunge rock gods Nirvana.
When speaking to BBC 6Music frontman Tom Meighan explained that during the process of making their latest album the band listened to a lot of 13th Floor Elevators, The Pretty Things, Rolling Stones and The Kinks and that this time around, they have lots of new ideas .
“Sergio Pizzorno [guitarist] has got a body of songs that are sounding great,” Tom explained of its sequel. “There’s one that sounds like Nirvana, which is really grungy, a big riff.
“It’s nothing like what we’ve done on this record [West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum], it’s really old school grunge. There’s a lot of Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon, piano-based songs at the minute.”
“I wouldn’t mind joining a band with Robert Plant one day, but I’ll sing and he can go on guitar.”
The band promises the the new album will not take as long to make as their previous two projects did.
“I think we’ll do it a bit quicker this time,” he said. “We took a good three months off last time, because we toured for about four years and that’s the only reason we took that amount of time off, because we toured like crazy.
“I think this time we’ll have a few weeks off or a month off, then we’ll go into the studio and record the new record. Hopefully we won’t wait around so much this time.”
Meighan was asked about the band’s Festival plans for next summer and whether they would consider performing at Glastonbury.
He replied: “It Michael Eavis calls, you come. If you don’t, you don’t but I can see him getting really massive established bands like the Stones.
“If it’s the 40th Anniversary I don’t think he’d pick us anyway to headline it. He’s gonna pick established bands that have been around over 30 or 40 years.”
Robert Plant at the Q awards this October was actually quoted saying : “I’ve just been talking to Michael. There’s place for me there, but I have no idea who with.”
Asked if he would offer his services, Meighan, who met the Led Zeppelin legend at the bash, joked: “I wouldn’t mind joining a band with Robert Plant one day, but I’ll sing and he can go on guitar.”
Of their meeting, Tom said: “I just told him how much I loved him. I called him ‘Mr Plant’. He was like, ‘Don’t call me Mr Plant, call me Robert and I brought your record and it’s great’, is what he said. He was wonderful.”
Cant wait to hear the new tunes! Does this mean that Kasabian seriously is not doing a U.S. tour in support of West Pauper Lunatic Asylum? Kinda Lame! Theres a ton of fans here in the states. Just saying!