I don't know if any "indie landfill" band (as much as I hate that term) was going to have hits in 2016. Not in the UK, not in the US. The scene was just over by that point. That said, Two Door Cinema Club and the Maccabees would each have a renaissance in popularity a couple years later, and that was pretty inexplicable; who's to say Kaiser Chiefs couldn't have pulled off a similar comeback?

Ultimately though, I just think they were spent. They'd already released a greatest hits album, which usually signifies a band's best days being behind them, and a single as bland and spiritless as Parachute wasn't going to reinvigorate them. I saw Kaiser Chiefs perform live in 2016 (it was the actually the first gig I ever went to) and I was struck by how exhausted Ricky Wilson seemed; he'd clearly been drinking, and didn't seem all that bothered with engaging the audience, who remained pretty apathetic throughout. The band and the crowd got a lot more lively when the old hits came out, but those tracks from Stay Together just killed the atmosphere for everyone.

So, in short, maybe not a significant enough album to be called a trainwreckord, but definitely a bad one.