Klaxons
Surfing The Void

Klaxons’ debut album was, if nothing else, a triumph of oddities that made them far more exciting than New Rave-deniers would have ever admitted, fill...

Klaxons presented a hope that the recent swathes of flash in the pan ubiquity could wane under their siren; that such a zeitgeist band could pull thro...

Three years of anticipation have been building around this album, the follow on from the Mercury Prize winning 'Myths of the Near Future'. With tales ...

After three years of creative back-and-forth with their label (the band was told to go back to the drawing board in 2009 when the album they presented...

We aren't going to bore you with revelations that Myths Of The Near Future wasn't rave. There was such a thing as a nu rave sound, but it was a misnom...

Three years and numerous false starts after Myths Of The Near Future, Klaxons finally release follow-up, Surfing The Void but is it brilliant, a mess ...

Surfing the Void: For its charm and its accessibility I've tried to forgive, but for how frustratingly inoffensive it is, I'm compelled to forget. The...

Remember when some blokes from London who called themselves the Klaxons helped launch a made up genre called “new rave” where hipsters got drunk and w...

Nu-Rave was an elaborate joke which got out of hand and it's unfortunately self-aware inventors know it better than anyone else. Wisely then they have...

Forgive us for stating the obvious, but it’s important to remember that ‘Surfing The Void’ is not the album Klaxons wanted to release. If it was, they...