Kasabian share riotous new single ‘Darkest Lullaby’ with ’70s gangster movie-inspired video

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Kasabian have shared the latest teaser of their upcoming album, in the form of ‘Darkest Lullaby’ – watch the ‘70s gangster movie-inspired video below.The Leicester band’s eighth album ‘Happenings’ is coming out on July 5, with the singles ‘Call’ and ‘Coming Back To Me Good’ having been released earlier in the year.The video for ‘Darkest Lullaby’ – directed by the duo Bedroom (The 1975, Arlo Parks) – finds the band playing characters in a trailer for a fictional ’70s grindhouse B-movie, complete with gunfights, drugs and violence.Watch it here:Frontman Serge Pizzorno has said: “’Darkest Lullaby’ is based on a long-lost film from the 1970s – the music video is the trailer for this fictional film that was never made.

It was shot and made by a rag tag bunch of artists having the time of their lives.”The indie veterans first revealed that their “psychedelic” new album of “big hitters” was on the way last year, at the same time that they announced details of a huge homecoming gigThey will headline Summer Solstice II on Saturday July 6 in a return to Victoria Park, having previously played an outdoor gig there 10 years ago.The new LP will be the follow-up to 2022’s ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’ and their second since the exit of Tom Meighan.

It was written at Pizzorno’s home studio, The Sergery, and features Mark Ralph (Zara Larsson, Clean Bandit, Rudimental) as co-producer.Speaking to NME earlier this year about the making of the album, Pizzorno continued the cinematic theme by likening the process to a “well-executed bank heist”. “The rules were the same for each track: to keep it tight and around three minutes,” he explained.“You know if you’ve got the greatest crack team of bank robbers in the world, right?