Track Listing

1. Empire
2. Shoot the Runner
3. Last Trip (In Flight)
4. Me Plus One
5. Sun Rise Light Flies
6. Aponea
7. By My Side
8. Stuntman
9. Seek & Destroy
10. British Legion
11. The Doberman

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5405 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-19
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
2006 sophomore album from this danceably rockin' Britpop band. Recorded at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, the album was produced by Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Editors, Ladytron) and Kasabian. 11 tracks including the first single, 'Empire'. Sony/BMG. 2006.

Amazon.com
It was easy to see where Kasabian was coming from on its self-titled 2004 debut: Take Oasis' classic rock bluster, slap it together with the Chemical Brothers' acid-soaked club beats, and shake fiercely. But how to improve on a formula the British band already perfected with early singles like "Club Foot" and "Reason Is Treason"? That's easy: more of the same, only louder. On Empire, the shaggy-haired quartet adds dizzying strings and a heavy glam-rock stomp to its new songs, delivering roof-quaking tracks like "Shoot The Runner," "Sun Rise Light Flies" and the monstrous title cut. Even if the songs don't always measure up to their predecessors, the sound is reassuringly riotous. --Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews

Never threatens to touch greatness
but there is still a lot of pleasure to be derived from Kasabians second record.
Opening with the bullish 'Empire', which is a storming anthem very much in the same vein as the debut album, Kasabian set themselves above the average English rock band early on. The album highlight, 'Shoot The Runner', reasserts this, a four minute blast of wonderful 60's esque dance rock.
'Last Flight' keeps the feel good mood going, an adequate, VERY British piece of pop. 'Me Plus One' is an incredibly dull song, and an inexplicable choice for a single,but 'Sun Rise Light Flies' breaths fire back into the album.
Apnoea and By My Side plod by without leaving much of an impression before 'Stuntman', a devastating, bass driven, monster of a song.
The record mellows out there after, firstly with the surprisingly pleasant 'Seek And Destroy', then with an acoustic number, British Legion.
Album closer, 'Doberman' is an epic finale. It begins slowly before exploding into a Spaghetti Western soundtrack style jam, a truly triumphant climax to a solid album.
If you want the big tunes, then buy the first album, where they are in far greater numbers. Empire, however, has far less filler and is a more durable listen. If Kasabian can carry on in the same spirit, then album number three has the potential to reach the heights that the band so clearly crave.

This is Why I Don't Impulse Buy
This CD is exactly why I don't go buy CDs at the store. So I was at Best Buy buying a new cd and saw that Kasabain came out with a new cd. Since I bought their last one aroud the time the Killers came out and seeing as THEY were able to come out with a good sophmore album, I took the plunge.

Stupid stupid stupid. Why did I stray from my usual, "check out the reviews on amazon first, then buy" philosophy that has worked out for so many years!?!

This is a lackluster follow up at best. It's o.k. but the songs just all sound so vanilla compared to their first album.

Most reviewers that own the first album are right on when reviewing this album. I think it should get 2.5 stars.

Very mediocre.

YES! I found it!!
I searched and searched for the name of the song played during the waiting for the surf contest scene in my favorite new show "John from Cincinatti."
Sun Rise Light Flies is it! Love it!