专辑： Empire 艺人： Kasabian 公司： Columbia 语言： 英文 发行日期： 2006年8月28日
专辑介绍：
'We're all wasting away!' barks vocalist Tom Meighan on the opening, title track to Kasabian's second album, Empire. A quick peek at the sales figures, however, proves that lean times are most certainly not on the horizon. After clocking up close to a million sales of their debut album, Leicester's post-baggy rock troupe have returned with an album that ramps up all their key hallmarks: the swagger of the Gallagher brothers, the wide-pupils euphoria of acid house/acid-rock, and the crushing, propulsive dancefloor heaviness of beered-up disco rabble-rousers Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim. From "Last Trip (In Flight)", a sort of gospel-enhanced remake of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine", to the driving, techno-engineered "Stuntman", it's heavy on the choruses, heavy on the fireworks, and seemingly custom-made for a festival crowd – which is, of course, no bad thing. "British Legion" is a surprising stand-out, an Lennon-esque ballad accompanied by acoustic guitar. And while the mystic-tinged "Sun/Rise/Light/Flies" suggests that shimmering Indian strings might be becoming as much of a cliché as the bolt-on orchestra was in Britpop times, you somehow doubt Kasabian are at all bothered by the prospect of being too obvious. After all, it's the job of Empire to stamp Kasabian's name onto your face with a hob-nailed boot, and it succeeds in its mission admirably.
Description The follow-up to their self-titled 2004 debut, 'Empire' marks the triumphant return of the Leicester based indie-electronica fusionists. Produced by Jim Abbiss (Editors, Arctic Monkeys) at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth 'Empire' delivers a more mature, expansive sound, coupled with Kasabian's trademark confident swaggering style. Includes the single 'Empire'.
Kasabian的第一张专辑是一个莫大的意外，这支英国的摇滚团体融合了电子音乐的味道，创造出了他们的第一张专辑Kasabian，专辑面世后获得了评论的一支好评，是2004年最佳的专辑之一，我也直到今年才买到这张专辑，他们在去年还推出了一张名为Live From Brixton Academy的现场专辑，有这样一个成功的环境，他们的第二张专辑自然得到了很多的期望，关于他们专辑的消息早在今年年初的时候就有了陆续的报道，7月份的时候他们发行了第一首新专辑的单曲Empire，一首有着很强反战意味的歌曲，交响音乐的使用让歌曲听来有种如同他名字一般的气势，这首歌曲也标志着他们同上一张专辑的分道扬镳，歌曲成为了他们第二首前十名的单曲。专辑也在八月底在英国发行了，除了十首歌曲组成的专辑之外，还有一张器乐版的专辑。不过这张新专辑Empire让许多评论感到失望，他们的第二首歌曲Shoot The Runner虽然很少使用电子的乐器，却有点上一张专辑的遗留的味道，也许他们永远没有真正摆脱上一张专辑，从很多地方都能找出他们上一张专辑的痕迹，也许正是这中欲盖弥彰的做法让专辑听来没有上一张专辑来得强烈，如果说Last Trip (In Flight)还是这样的一种歌曲，那么Me Plus One则更加接近于indie的摇滚乐队，直到Stuntman我才听到了上一张专辑的Kasabian，虽然这首歌曲在专辑中已经没有太多的突出之处，紧接着这首歌曲的Seek & Destroy也是这样一首以电子音乐为主的曲目，Kasabian还冷不防地来了一首抒情歌曲，British Legion多少还是有着一点自己在专辑中的地位。都说第二张专辑对乐队，特别是第一张专辑成功的乐队是个挑战，有些人能够跨过这一栏，比如Franz Ferdinand，但现在看来Kasabian在栅栏前倒下了，不是那么地惨，因为专辑成为了英国专辑榜的冠军。
1| Empire 2| Shoot The Runner 3| Last Trip (In Flight) 4| Me Plus One 5| Sun Rise Light Flies 6| Apnoea 7| By My Side 8| Stuntman 9| Seek And Destroy 10| British Legion 11| Doberman