"Like it or not, Kasabian are 2017's biggest British rock band. Each of their last four albums to date has gone to number one, while only they, Arctic Monkeys, and the limper-than-ever Libertines are the only such artists to be part of that ever-slimming rotation of bands considered worthy of whipping crowds of a hundred thousand into appropriate shape as a festival headliner ... What a shame then, that For Crying Out Loud is Kasabian's most predictable record to date, as brash, unsophisticated and just plain dull of a listen as they've ever produced".