Mark Ronson has described the Kaiser Chiefs’ new songs as “brilliant”, saying they recall the “urgency” of the band’s debut album.

Ronson, who is working on the band’s upcoming third album, said fans will be especially impressed by the guitar sounds on the new songs.

He told BBC 6 Music: “They’ve got brilliant songs, [harking] back to the urgency of the first album – songs like ‘Every Day I Love You Less And Less’ and ‘I Predict A Riot’.

“The second record was brilliant, but it was more mature and paced. Whitey’s guitars on all this stuff are so brilliant. I feel like that energy hasn’t necessarily come out on a Kaisers record before.”

Ronson also revealed that his trademarks horns aren’t part of the band’s new sound, saying: “There’s no trumpets on it. For one song I said, ‘You know what would be good on this? Horns’, [frontman] Ricky was like, ‘No’.”