The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

Label: Rinse
Catologue Number: RINSELP1
Format: CD
Date: 2007
Style: Indie / Indie Dance
Rating: 2/10
Reviewer: Sidney James

Don’t believe the hype! The Klaxons have been touted as one of the great new bands of the year and as you can probably guess this is one of the biggest pieces of spin since Saddam’s WMD.

Labelled as new rave by some desperate hack (probably one of the fuckwits at the NME), you would expect The Klaxons to be pushing the indie dance bandwagon in new exciting directions. Instead you get the same stodgy beats and limp wristed funk and feeble electronics that have crippled every UK indie bands to put some dance culture into their trad rock sounds from the Soup Dragons via Campag Velocet to the present indie disco remix scene.

Where as bands like !!! and Soulwax know had to do the indie dance rock funk thing with gusto, The Klaxons just sound like a band who once heard a dance track on the radio. The most disturbing thing about is that the Test-Icicles did the same thing but better a couple of years before hand and were lambasted for it and they did it with a bit more of and edge.

To be honest this is an album that should only appeal to the trendier than thou twats of Hoxton or the desperate middle class indie kid who thinks he likes dance music but can’t really deal with the more working class and minority attachments dance culture has. The Klaxons are more in common with Jesus Jones and EMF than cutting edge dance like Dubstep, Grime and the numerous hybrid styles being pumped out by labels like Planet Mu.

Do yourself a favour avoid this like the plague and go buy some proper old school rave records instead. Which still sound more alive and cutting edger than the Klaxons will ever do.Myths of the near future? More like the mistakes of the last 20 years. Avoid like the plague.