Named after a South African soccer team, the Kaiser Chiefs took their native UK by storm in the wake of their 2005 debut album, Employment, and its string of brash, hooky chant-along singles like “Oh My God,” “Everyday I Love You Less and Less,” “Modern Way” and — most notoriously — “I Predict a Riot.” That last one made NME’s list of the “Greatest Indie Anthems Ever” (coming in at No. 36). Not surprisingly, the follow-up, 2007’s Yours Truly, Angry Mob topped the British charts and produced the band’s first No. 1 single, “Ruby.” The Kaiser Chiefs have made plenty of fans stateside, too, thanks to frontman Ricky Wilson’s and the rest of the band’s energetic live performances. Their latest album, last fall’s Off With Their Heads, was hailed by Rolling Stone as “great British pop in the dynamic lethal-irony tradition of the mid-’60s Kinks, the early Jam and, with that vintage-New Wave tone of Nick Baines’ keyboards, XTC’s 1979 album, Drums and Wires.”
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