Hot off the press(releases)es! I was just checking out my e-mails, and according to some publicist, one-hit wonder band Kula Shaker is officially (finally) BACK! That’s right, fans of that song “Tattva”, you can all come out of hiding because your Anne Frank-like oppression has, at long last, met its end. Take it away, publicist!
Forget reunion. This is reincarnation. After a six-year absence, the UK’s Kula Shaker return with the brilliant ‘Strangefolk’ out on Cooking Vinyl February 19th, 2008. Produced in collaboration with an all-star team of hit makers including Sam Williams (Supergrass) and Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, Pixies), ‘Strangefolk’, Kula Shaker’s third studio album, consists of 13 songs that hurl themselves through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole, echoing with voices of protest and imagination.It’s been 10 years since Kula Shaker first appeared, stamping their mark on the infamous Britpop scene. For Britain, the late 1990’s, were a time for celebrating lager and singing soccer anthems. Oasis were the grunt of a generation and artists became overnight millionaires for pickling dead cows. Seriously. Kula Shaker stood out amidst this boozy bacchanal.
That’s right, f*ck you Oasis! Your time of drunken soccer hooliganism is over, again. Kula Shaker is reincarnated, and ready to once again deliver the world from aggression with their hippy-dippy Gandhi songs. Send the message to your mind, people – acintya bheda bheda tattva.
