• Record Label: Polydor
  • Release Date: Jun 16, 2008
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. For now, Strength In Numbers, whilst not exactly redefining the zeitgeist, is a lot better than anyone could have expected.
  2. Uncut
    60
    'Fire' and 'Drugs' certainly boasts the head-in-the-speakers mania of old, but it's the more meditative 'Vision' that suggests a future beyond Rizla conventions. [July 2008, p.104]
  3. Strength in Numbers is far from unlistenable--I don't know if your free time is spent sorting through stacks and stacks of charmless indie rock CDs that have the nerve to call themselves "pop," but when the chorus of the title track hits with the subtlety of a latter-day Nas album title, it's damn refreshing to hear a group bound for glory as shamelessly as the Music.
  4. Kasabian and their brass-necks have long since appropriated The Music's mantle of anthem-whoring psychedelic horsemen and there's barely a moment over the course of 12 tracks here where they contest that.
  5. Mojo
    40
    The band remains shackled to that wearying off-beat pulse that cauise trhe likes of 'Fire,' 'Vision' and the title track to tire. [July 2008, p.112]
  6. Q Magazine
    40
    It's an oppressive brew of heavy rock with pounding Kasabian beats, but Harvey, sounding agitated throughout, makes heavy weather out of it. [July 2008, p.108]
  7. For their third album, they've roped in Orbital's Paul Hartnoll to provide an electronic chassis, thus outing themselves as an even less subtle Kasabian.
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. MarkB.
    Sep 11, 2008
    7
    Soli album with some fantastic tunes you can really jump about to, Drugs and Fire especially! Good album, I recommend it.
  2. GavinG
    Aug 14, 2008
    9
    Fantastic album, its a grower that rewards u after several listens.
  3. PatrickD
    Jul 30, 2008
    5
    Pretty disappointing. This band's songwriting has deteriorated precipitously since the first album. The only track that has stood Pretty disappointing. This band's songwriting has deteriorated precipitously since the first album. The only track that has stood repeated listens is the fascinating brooding "Idle". Full Review »