Claude says:Empire hit right when Kasabian were learning to weaponize stadium rock with electronic muscle, and you've kept coming back to Shoot the Runner—a track that sounds like it was built to close arenas, all swagger and synth-driven propulsion. Eighteen years of occasional spins suggests this one landed as a moment rather than a obsession, but it's the kind of record that proves you were paying attention to what British guitar bands were becoming in the mid-2000s.