Last June Leeds rockers Kaiser Chiefs released their fourth album The Future Is Medieval but something differentiated it from the bands previous records. The band uploaded twenty songs to a website, allowing fans to select ten of the tracks and make their own albums, complete with different artwork and track ordering. Was this an attempt to subvert the traditional album releasing model, or just a neat new trick? One year on from the album's release John Balfe spoke to the band's keyboardist Nick 'Peanut' Baines about how it all went down and you can read the whole thing right here.
Kaiser Chiefs will play Sea Sessions Surf & Music Festival on Friday June 29th. Their singles collection Souvenir is out now.
