It is the Great British state of mind to reserve an untameable cynicism for the over-achievers of our nation.
So the announcement of a new Kaiser Chiefs album was rained with comments that their humour-pop had seen its day. On the contrary, ‘Never Miss A Beat’ has siphoned the roar energy from the engines of ‘Employment’ and doused it in the mature deliveries of their new album. The strumming and skin beating could not sound more ‘Leeds’ and the question-answer lyrical technique adds dynamism to its British pop-rock brio.
“What did you learn today?” bellows Ricky Wilson as the song opens. I learnt that prioritising the purchase ‘Off With Their Heads’ above the payment of bills, is foolishly impractical yet unequivocally necessary.
