Kasabian share ‘Call’ and tell us about new album ‘Happenings’: “It’s a well-executed bank heist”

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Kasabian have shared their bombastic new single ‘Call’ and announced details of their 8th album ‘Happenings’. Check it out below, along with our interview with frontman Serge Pizzorno.The Leicester indie veterans first shared that the “psychedelic” new album of “big hitters” was on the way last year when they announced details of a huge homecoming gig in the form of Summer Solstice II – a return to Victoria Park on Saturday July 6 after previously playing an outdoor gig there back in 2014.Now, they’ve announced that ‘Happenings’ will arrive the day before as well as sharing the dance-driven new single ‘Call’ and the daredevil music video.

Shot by director duo Waxxwork, the video is centred around a phone falling out of a plane and hurtling through the sky – having been shot in Albania where aerospace laws would allow sky-divers to out of a helicopter with the video playing in real time.The follow-up to 2022’s ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’ and their second since the exit of Tom Meighan comes at 10 tracks long, clocking in at just 26 minutes (“A minute shorter than the Ramones’ debut,” as Pizzorno explained), and was written at the musician’s home studio The Sergery completing work with co-producer Mark Ralph (Zara Larsson, Clean Bandit, Rudimental).Check out our interview with Pizzorno below, with the frontman explaining what to expect from the record 20 years after their debut album, why they threw people out of a plane, and how you just need to “send up the fucking bat signal” for them to smash a festival near you.Pizzorno: “It was the first thing that went down.

I had the riff towards the end of the last record. Certain riffs talk to you, and I was like, ‘Yes, there’s something special in this’.