Clearly confident that people were still into chugging indie with a side of glib mental-health references, Kasabian heralded their sixth album with You’re in Love with a Psycho, a track whose dopey asylum-set video simply gurned in the face of progress. It’s not the first time the indie survivors have prized silly blokeyness over appropriate content – in 2009 they released an album called West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum – and to be fair it’s clearly an effective formula: their combination of political incorrectness and easy traceability up the Beatles family tree is partly why their last four albums have all gone to No 1. As grating as their sub-Mighty Boosh wackiness always, always is (crimes against surrealism here include the lyric “sasquatch in a binbag”), their meat-and-two-veg indie is still enjoyable: managing to balance satisfying guitar distortion with all-together-now euphoria (Bless This Acid House), whilst nailing scraggy Sgt Pepper vibes (Put Your Life on It).
