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The Angry Mob is the third single from the Kaiser Chiefs‘ Yours Truly, Angry Mob album.In contrast to the preceding single, Everything Is Average, The Angry Mob is a much more engaging tune and does a far better job of getting its point across. For me, the Angry Mob single (and video) hark back to I Predict A Riot territory and Ricky Wilson makes some great social commentary:

We are the angry mob
We read the papers every day
We like who we like, we hate who we hate
But we’re all so easily swayed

It just conjures up those images in The Simpsons, where the entire town of Springfield has a knee-jerk reaction on the basis of some ill-founded news item and goes on the rampage. I think the Kaisers do an excellent job of bringing home the ignorance of the populace and how easily the public can be sucked in by the media.

I think a lot of the strength of Angry Mob comes from it being the title track for the new album and the repetition of the chorus on the lead out. Also not to be missed are those biting, suspended guitar chords that are left to hang as the bass and drums carry the track forward.

The Angry Mob: The Video

The video brilliantly sends up hen night culture, with two rival groups of hens clashing on a night out. They’re vulgar, offensive and drunk and there’s some spectacularly violent scenes as the two hen parties square up to each other. That headbutt looked especially nasty…check it out;

Big thumbs up from us. Classic Kaiser Chiefs.