Velociraptor!

Despite long being the standard-bearers for a swaggering, Gallagherian brand of British rock—they even supported Oasis on their final tour—Kasabian have always been comfortable letting their freak flag fly. Fourth record <i>Velociraptor!</i> may be the tidemark for this restive experimentalism, featuring hungry attacks on everything from strutting disco (“Re-Wired”) to Serge-fronted neo-psych (“La Fée Verte”). And then there’s “Switchblade Smiles”: a bomb-blast of nocturnal electronica and floor-shaking percussion that’s comfortably one of their biggest (and strangest) bangers.