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Kasabian have told 6 Music they hope to have the follow-up to their Mercury Prize-nominated third album out in Autumn and one song is reminiscent of grunge heroes Nirvana.

West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum was critically lauded by the likes of The Times, The Guardian, Uncut, NME and Q magazine.

When it came to making their latest album, frontman Tom Meighan said the band listened to a lot of 13th Floor Elevators, The Pretty Things, Rolling Stones and The Kinks and this time around, they have lots of new ideas for a fourth.

"Sergio Pizzorno [guitarist] has got a body of songs that are sounding great," he explained of its sequel. "There’s one that sounds like Nirvana, which is really grungy, a big riff.

"It’s nothing like what we’ve done on this record [West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum], it’s really old school grunge. There’s a lot of Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon, piano-based songs at the minute."

"I wouldn't mind joining a band with Robert Plant one day, but I'll sing and he can go on guitar."

Kasabian's Tom Meighan

Their second effort Empire was released in 2006, with their third out in June of this year, and the singer assured us they don’t plan on leaving it so long this time around.

"I think we’ll do it a bit quicker this time," he said. "We took a good three months off last time, because we toured for about four years and that’s the only reason we took that amount of time off, because we toured like crazy.

"I think this time we’ll have a few weeks off or a month off, then we’ll go into the studio and record the new record. Hopefully we won’t wait around so much this time."

'Call me Robert'

Turning to next summer’s festival season, we asked Meighan if Kasabian would consider performing at Glastonbury.

He replied: "It Michael Eavis calls, you come. If you don’t, you don’t but I can see him getting really massive established bands like the Stones.

"If it’s the 40th Anniversary I don’t think he’d pick us anyway to headline it. He’s gonna pick established bands that have been around over 30 or 40 years."

On the matter of Glastonbury, Robert Plant told us in October at the Q Awards: "I've just been talking to Michael. There's place for me there, but I have no idea who with."

We asked Meighan, who met the Led Zeppelin legend at the bash, if he would offer his services.

He joked: "I wouldn’t mind joining a band with Robert Plant one day, but I’ll sing and he can go on guitar."

Of their meeting, Meighan said: "I just told him how much I loved him. I called him 'Mr Plant'. He was like, 'Don’t call me Mr Plant, call me Robert and I brought your record and it’s great', is what he said. He was wonderful."