KAISER CHIEFS PLAY THE MOD CLUB (722 COLLEGE) NOV 18.
Off With Their Heads represents an all-time career middle for the Kaiser Chiefs. Produced with Mark Ronson, Heads splits the difference between the asinine Britpop of their debut, Employment, and the stale album-oriented rockisms of its follow-up, Yours Truly, Angry Mob. Once again, apart from the occasional so-so single (“Never Miss a Beat”), tunelessness reigns supreme. There are pretensions at progression — UK rapper Sway and Lily Allen appear — but it’s mostly business-as-boringly-usual. The band’s sense of humour is as lazy as ever (check out “Addicted to Drugs,” which subtracts the pun from Robert Palmer’s original), as is their obsession with 1994-style dropped consonants (as on the unforgivably mockney “Always Happens Like That”). Frankly, the less said, the be’er.