A gloomy short-term forecast ahead then after a challenging year for British indie guitar music, reports the BBC Newsbeat website.Kaiser Chiefs admitted after their final gig of the year, "I think all the bands that were all our period of bands need to take a little break," said drummer Nick Hodgson to NME. "All the kids can come around to us again."
That's exactly what Coventry band The Enemy are planning on doing.
They released their second album Music For The People last year. After an initial charting at number two their presence in the charts dried up with sales not replicating that of their debut two years before.
"Anyone in guitar bands has to accept that last year was tough," says lead singer Tom Clarke. "You look at the charts and there just isn't the plethora of guitar bands that should be there.
"The cycle is there to weed out the rubbish bands. Last year the weak were weeded out."
Kasabian were one of a handful of British guitar bands to buck that trend and have an enduring commercial hit.
"Whilst radio stations were chickening out of playing guitar music - Kasabian just came out and said, 'Hang on a sec, guitar is great and always will be and here's a record to prove it'," says Clarke.
"Picking when you release a record is key to how the record does - we were really lucky that the timing on the first record was beautiful.
"The timing on the second record, I think we just got it in there before guitar music died a death in 2009.
"As with the Kaiser Chiefs and as with a lot of guitar bands, we'll sit out releasing a record until the time is right again."
* OFFICIAL Enemy website: http://theenemy.com
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