Kaiser Chiefs recently released a new music video for their comeback single "Coming Home," the first official single to be lifted from British indie rock's forthcoming new album "Education, Education, Education & War," which marks a new era for the band and will be released in the UK on March 31 and in the US on April 1 via Universal Music. The return of English rock band Kaiser Chiefs is around the corner. After promoting the first buzz tracks "Misery Company" and "Bows & Arrows," the world is ready to enjoy its upcoming new album.
Some songs are made to fill summer stadiums as the last light falls over the crowd. Kaiser Chiefs' new single "Coming Home," a U2/Kings of Leon-ish stadium-sized ballad, is one of them. There's a softer flow to "Coming Home," with light synth chords and twinkling guitars. It's a bit like Mancunian mystics James, for all you gnarled veterans out there, and boasts a second singalong chorus on the trot ("We're coming home... light a fire") to prove once again that those chops are still intact, however hard will.i.am tries to infect frontman Ricky Wilson with his anti-joy miasma.
The 'one shot' promo was shot in the Yorkshire Dales, not far from the band's hometown, and was directed by James Slater who took the songtitle to heart in his latest video for Kaiser Chiefs. As he explained: "We shot the video in a jovially named place called Blubberhouses which is right on the southern cusp of the Yorkshire Dales, and not too far from where I'm from. Its also just up the road from where the band hail. I think we all just hankered after a bit of home cooking. I've never shot in Yorkshire before, I should do it more often. The landscapes are great and as soon as DOP Jonathan Isles put the anamorphic lens on, it looked like a Western setting."
The video features Wilson share a journeyman's trek, walk up a path in what looks like the English countryside as he strolling across moors, while various characters, including his bandmates are lined up along the pathway, and finishing up alongside his bandmates in deck chairs looking down the road. The meaning behind the small details of the video coordinate with the song, and are really rich here with Wilson's quality as a performer, embraces the band's laddish humor, and adds a welcome measure of theatricality to the whole affair.
Some songs are made to fill summer stadiums as the last light falls over the crowd. Kaiser Chiefs' new single "Coming Home," a U2/Kings of Leon-ish stadium-sized ballad, is one of them. There's a softer flow to "Coming Home," with light synth chords and twinkling guitars. It's a bit like Mancunian mystics James, for all you gnarled veterans out there, and boasts a second singalong chorus on the trot ("We're coming home... light a fire") to prove once again that those chops are still intact, however hard will.i.am tries to infect frontman Ricky Wilson with his anti-joy miasma.
The 'one shot' promo was shot in the Yorkshire Dales, not far from the band's hometown, and was directed by James Slater who took the songtitle to heart in his latest video for Kaiser Chiefs. As he explained: "We shot the video in a jovially named place called Blubberhouses which is right on the southern cusp of the Yorkshire Dales, and not too far from where I'm from. Its also just up the road from where the band hail. I think we all just hankered after a bit of home cooking. I've never shot in Yorkshire before, I should do it more often. The landscapes are great and as soon as DOP Jonathan Isles put the anamorphic lens on, it looked like a Western setting."
The video features Wilson share a journeyman's trek, walk up a path in what looks like the English countryside as he strolling across moors, while various characters, including his bandmates are lined up along the pathway, and finishing up alongside his bandmates in deck chairs looking down the road. The meaning behind the small details of the video coordinate with the song, and are really rich here with Wilson's quality as a performer, embraces the band's laddish humor, and adds a welcome measure of theatricality to the whole affair.
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