Listen: Kaiser Chiefs Unveil New Song ‘Bows & Arrows’

Having already announced that they’d be following up their 2011 offering ‘The Future Is Medieval’ with a new album this year, Kaiser Chiefs have now unveiled their first taste of it.

Taken from their forthcoming fifth album ‘Education, Education, Education & War’ - as produced by Ben H. Allen III and mixed at New York’s Electric Lady Studios - the newly-arranged band have revealed ‘Bows & Arrows’.

Check out the first cut from the new record, and what the band had to say about it, below.



‘[Bassist] Simon Rix came up with the title when we were working in a studio under the McDonalds in Islington,’ commented the band, in a press release. ‘I liked the idea that bows and arrows are pretty useless on their own but when you get them together, they can be quite formidable,’ Wilson told Rolling Stone. ‘A bit like us lot, really. I love being in a band. It’s daft to think you can do it alone. It’s about not being afraid of emotion. It can be the strongest weapon we have. What’s wrong with a load of blokes admitting they need each other? [It’s] a sliver of hope through all the futility and loss on the record. You can also dance to it.’

The tracklisting for ‘Education, Education, Education & War’, which is set for release on 31st March, is as follows.

The Factory Gates’
‘Coming Home’
‘Misery Company’
‘Ruffians On Parade’
‘Meanwhile Up In Heaven’
‘One More Last Song’
‘My Life’
‘Bows & Arrows’
‘Cannons’
‘Roses’

Kaiser Chiefs play Manchester Gorilla on 11th February, London Scala on 13th February.