This advertisement is for the debut album of the band Kasabian. It features an ambiguous figure that is half black and half white, representing the band's dark and light sides. It does not show the individual band members, making it unique compared to typical band advertisements. The advertisement uses black and white colors to highlight important text like the album and band name. It also lists popular singles from the album, which may attract people familiar with those songs who don't know they are by Kasabian.

1. This is the debut album from Kasabian which is entitled
‘Kasabian’. The first thing that draws my attention to this
advertisement is the main image that it shows. The figure that
the advert shows us is unclear, however due to the fact that half
of the figures face is white and the other black this symbolises
the possible dark side and good side that the band has. The fact
that none of the band members are not shown on the
advertisement goes against the stereotypical advertisement
that bands have. This in a sense could highlight the diversity of
the band and how they are completely unique this meaning that
there sound and image could be something different than the
stereotype of the ‘indie’ genre.
The advertisement’s two main colours are black and white, one
obvious reason this could have been done is because if the
background is white this means that the most important words
of the advert are highlighted and can be easily seen these words
include the title of the album ‘Kasabian’ and ‘Debut Album’ this
effectively draws us too the most important aspects of the
advertisement straight away this way when people are flicking
through a magazine for example they will catch enough detail
of the advertisement to grasp what it is about in enough time
before their attention is drawn elsewhere (turning the page for
example).
However this advertisement does follow some of the typical
conventions of a music advertisement, this being the fact the
advert lists the most popular singles from the album. This
effectively may draw people in who have heard the song before
but where not aware who it was sung by. Also, if people know
that Kasabian sing ‘club foot’ for example they may be wanting
to purchase the album to see if they’re other songs are like the
one they listen to from the artist.