Track Listing 1. Spanish Metal 2. Never Miss A Beat 3. Like It Too Much 4. You Want History 5. Can't Say What I Mean 6. Good Days Bad Days 7. Tomato In The Rain 8. Half The Truth 9. Always Happens Like That 10. Addicted To Drugs 11. Remember You're A Girl
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Eliot James, Mark Ronson | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | PIAS UK/Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Personnel: Lily Allen, Sway (vocals); Tom Pigott-Smith, Rosemary Warren-Green, Debbie Widdup, Jonathan Evans-Jones, Thomas Bowes, Ralph De Souza, Peter Hanson, Ian Humphries, Helen Paterson (violin); Jon Thorne, Andy Parker, Garfield Jackson (viola); Tony Lewis, Paul Kegg, Jonathan Williams (cello); Dave Guy (trumpet); Mark Ronson (agogo); David Lloyd (djembe); Lou Hayter, Anne-Marie Chirema, Sarah Jones (background vocals).Audio Mixer: Andy Wallace.Arranger: David Arnold .Less than two years after the release of their 2007 sophomore album, YOURS TRULY, ANGRY MOB, the Britpop act Kaiser Chiefs shook off that record's lukewarm reception and issued the fine back-to-the-drawing-board outing OFF WITH THEIR HEADS. Aiding the band in their sonic shift is in-demand producer Mark Ronson, who gives HEADS an immediate and layered aesthetic much in the vein of his work with Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen. In fact, Ms. Allen, who has been known to cover the Chiefs, pops up on the Madness-like "Always Happens Like That," one of the album's high points, along with the driving, New Wave-tinged "Never Miss a Beat."
Editorial Reviews 4 stars out of 5 -- OFF WITH THEIR HEADS is great British pop in the dynamic lethal-irony tradition of the mid-Sixties Kinks, the early Jam and, with that vintage-New Wave tone of Nick Baines' keyboards, XTC's 1979 album, DRUMS AND WIRES.Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 -- [T]heir third album is again packed with the sort of boisterous melodies and niggling synth-hooks that can top charts and fill stadiums. Rolling Stone
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