ACT III Kasabian

• 1 quiet on set please 1m9 00:45
• 2 SOULMATE 02:27
• 3 Hippie Sunshine 03:06
• 4 SUPERPOWERS 02:53
• 5 GREAT PRETENDER 02:38
• 6 NOTHING BETTER THAN THIS 02:39
• 7 mind palace 2m7 00:43
• 8 SILVER APPLE EYES 03:15
• 9 THE GURU AND THE CRYPTO TIME MACHINE 03:24
• 10 npc 3m12 00:44
• 11 GLIDE 03:46
• 12 HYPER//RISING 03:38
• 13 SAY YOU (CLOSER) 02:54
• Total Runtime 32:52

Info for ACT III

ACT III, the ninth full-length studio release from Leicester-based rock band Kasabian, currently holds the Number 1 spot in the mid-week update. If the album retains its lead, it will mark the group’s eighth consecutive UK Number 1 record, pulling them level with artists such as Oasis and Led Zeppelin for total chart-topping albums.

Challenging Kasabian at Number 2 is PRESIDENT with their debut full-length record, Blood Of Your Empire. Formed in early 2025, the mysterious metalcore cohort—consisting of members The President, Heist, Protest, and Vice—follow up their previous EP release King Of Terrors with a record currently trailing Kasabian by fewer than 900 chart units.

The mid-week Top 5 features several new entries. Slovak artist ADÉLA enters at Number 3 with her debut studio album PRIMA, supported by the success of her single "Ain't in LA". Pop singer Natalie Imbruglia places at Number 4 with Algorithm, her first studio release in five years. If it holds its position, Algorithm will become Imbruglia's highest-charting album since her 2005 release, Counting Down The Days. Olivia Rodrigo's former chart-topper rounds out the Top 5.

Further down the update, former Thin Lizzy frontman Ricky Warwick sits at Number 6 with Fire & Vengeance, eyeing a career-best solo placement, while Ellie Goulding’s I Know Too Much tracks toward the Top 10 at Number 10. Dexys target a ninth Top 40 album with LOVE at Number 11, and Liverpool singer-songwriter Jamie Webster enters the update at Number 13 with Running Round The Sun.

Kasabian

Kasabian
took the British press by storm in the early 2000s by mixing traces of the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and Primal Scream with Oasis-sized confidence and DJ Shadow-influenced electronics. Named after Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson's getaway driver turned state witness, the Leicester-based group also stole a page from the Band by moving into a remote farmhouse to brew its music. Communal life and a slew of shared influences produced an electronic, rock-oriented sound that harked back to the Madchester days of baggy pants and druggy dancing. Kasabian expanded that sound on later albums, but the band's foundation remained rooted in swaggering, fragmented dance textures and boisterous rock & roll.

With his acerbic approach to interviews, swaggering lead singer Tom Meighan quickly became a darling of the press during the band's infancy, and Kasabian's revolutionary logos and sleeve art only added to the excitement. Foldout poster sleeves, 10" versions, and hand-stenciled covers accompanied singles like "Club Foot," "L.S.F," and "Processed Beats." The hype paid off as Kasabian's self-titled debut cracked the Top Five in October 2004, just one month after its U.K. release. Four singles landed in the Top 20 within six months, establishing the bandmates as rock & roll royalty in the process.

Founding guitarist Chris Karloff left the lineup two years later, citing creative differences with the remaining members. Kasabian's second album, Empire, had already been recorded, and guitarist Jay Mehler was brought aboard to replace Karloff during live performances. (Mehler eventually became an official member in 2008.) Empire was ultimately released in August 2006 and debuted atop the U.K. charts, with the title track soon becoming the band's third Top Ten hit. The band took home an NME Award in 2007 and began work on another album later that year. Dan the Automator was brought in to share production duties with Sergio Pizzorno, and the resulting U.K. chart-topper West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum appeared in 2009. Automator would return for the 2011 album Velociraptor!, featuring the leadoff single "Switchblade Smiles." In 2013, Mehler left the group and joined former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher in his group Beady Eye, but the band carried on as a four-piece and recorded a new album with Pizzorno in the producer's chair. Named after the album's total running time, 48:13 arrived in 2014, featuring the lead single "Eez-eh."

This album contains no booklet.