Whether you ever ascribed to the whole “new rave” thing or not, you cant deny that Klaxons have had some great numbers and you cant really blame them too much in any case for getting involved in whatever nonsense NME might have cooked up. After all, NME is always cooking up some similar nonsense and not only does that process (along with endless provocative vox pops from one or another dickhead in Oasis) sell magazines, but also records. If I was a band I’d be begging NME to center a manufactured fad around me, certainly people would some day wake up and realise that “minimalist prog punk” was a load of bollocks, but before then I’ve sold a shit tone of t-shirts and silver shoelaces.
Their new album, recorded throughout 2013 with Tom Rowlands, Gorgon City, Erol Alkan and James Murphy is entitled Love Frequency and came out in June. While their second record was perceived as a rejection of their dance influenced past, this is a return to it. Once again they’ve leapt to the front of a queue of none as the only group of people blending the euphoria of today’s dance scene with the aesthetics, experimentation and instrumentation of post-punk. It’s a synth laden piece of electro-pop goodness, so put on your dancing shoes, put on your shiny neon suits and get down there, it’s gonna be a party after all. We had a chance to get a first glimpse of the new record when Klaxons played Berghain Kantine back in April. Rumor has it that a certain English actress who is married to James Righton was spotted in the crowd…
