Riding on the crest of the early 2000s-UK indie wave along with bands like Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs broke into the mainstream with their debut album Employment (2005). The band followed the first single, ‘Oh My God’, with ‘I Predict a Riot’, which documents the horrors of the nightlife in the band’s native city of Leeds:
Simon Rix’s bass part mixes propulsive root note lines with some high-register melodicism during the verse section. Time to dust off those ledger line reading skills!