Kaiser Chiefs - Education Education Education & War - Alternative - CD

Kaiser Chiefs now release their fifth studio album, EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION & WAR via ATO Records. The ten-track collection was written in London, Los Angeles and Nashville, recorded at the Maze Studio in Atlanta, Georgia and mixed at Electric Lady Studios by Michael Brauer (My Morning Jacket, Coldplay) with producer Ben H. Allen III (Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, Deerhunter). Songs including 'Coming Home', 'Misery Company' were introduced in various guises during the band's 2013 live shows including the Lollapalooza Festival in South America, London's Hyde Park and during their giant homecoming show at Leeds Arena in September. The record shows an evolution in maturity of songwriting and sound, and deftly executes a wide array of the bands influences.

The fifth long-player from the Leeds-based festival rockers with a penchant for climbing lighting rigs and crafting arm-waving anthems that fuse the anthemic scope of classic Brit-pop with the insular, progressive cynicism of early-2000s indie rock, begins with the rousing "Factory Gates," a distillation of all of those aforementioned attributes that sounds a bit like what is arguably their most well-known song, 2005's "I Predict a Riot." As arena anthems go, you could do a lot worse than the infectious, aforementioned earworm of an opener and the like-minded "Ruffians on Parade," or the propulsive and pugilistic "Misery Company," a wily and willfully melodic ode to self-deprecation that's built around a chorus of maniacal laughter. There's a refreshing, devil-may-care cavalier attitude to Education, Education, Education & War that eradicates much of the desperation that was beginning to creep in after 2007's Yours Truly, Angry Mob. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi

Performer	Kaiser Chiefs
Music genre	Alternative
Music release type	Album
Media format	CD
Original release date	2014
Number of tracks	10
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Track listing	Factory Gates, Coming Home, Misery Company, Ruffians on Parade, Meanwhile Up in Heaven, One More Last Song, My Life, Bows & Arrows, Cannons, Roses
Record label	Ato Records
Music producer	Ben H. Allen III
Track name	Coming Home', 'Misery Company
Digital audio file format	CD
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N