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Off with Their Heads (album)

Off with Their Heads
Off with Their Heads (Kaiser Chiefs album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by Kaiser Chiefs
Released 20 October 2008
Recorded RAK & Eastcote Studios, London
Genre Indie rock
Length 35:34
Label B-Unique, Universal Motown
Producer Mark Ronson, Eliot James
Kaiser Chiefs chronology
Yours Truly, Angry Mob
(2007)
Off with Their Heads
(2008)
The Future Is Medieval
(2011)
Singles from Off with Their Heads
  1. "Never Miss a Beat"
    Released: 6 October 2008
  2. "Good Days Bad Days"
    Released: 15 December 2008
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 70/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
BBC Favourable
The Guardian 4/5 stars
The Independent 2/5 stars
musicOMH 2.5/5 stars
NME 5/10
Pitchfork Media 6.8/10
Q 4/5 stars
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
The Times 4/5 stars

Off with Their Heads is the third studio album by English rock band Kaiser Chiefs, and was released on 20 October 2008 in the UK, and on 25 August 2009 in the United States. The first single from the album was "Never Miss a Beat", released two weeks before the album. The album charted at number two on the UK Albums Chart during the week of 26 October 2008 and at number 16 in the Irish Albums Chart of the week of 24 October.

The album features guest appearances from several artists, including Lily Allen who provides backing vocals on "Always Happens Like That" and "Never Miss a Beat". She previously covered "Oh My God" on her first mixtape and later with Mark Ronson on his album Version. Three members of the English indie band New Young Pony Club also feature on backing vocals on "Never Miss a Beat", Sway DaSafo raps one verse of "Half the Truth", and James Bond composer David Arnold, who performed with the band at 2007's BBC Electric Proms, also appears on the album.

"Never Miss a Beat" and "You Want History" premiered on the band's UK Arena Tour in the Winter of 2007. The lyric "Off with their heads" appears in the first verse of "Like It Too Much". The album was uploaded with 30 second previews of each song, apart from "Never Miss a Beat" which included a full recording, on the music social networking site Last.fm on 9 October 2008. "Never Miss A Beat" appeared on Pro Evolution 2010, as did previous single Ruby, from Yours Truly, Angry Mob.


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