Klaxons return

Thu 27th May, 2010 in International News

Having spent maybe just a little too long in the wilderness following their much loved Modular Recordings debut album Myths Of The Near Future, UK buzzards Klaxons have at last made their official comeback, revealing a new single online overnight.

This new track, delightfully dubbed Flashover, is seemingly the first taste of that record – which NME reports will come bearing a similarly bodacious title of Surfing The Void.

James Righton told London radio station Xfm that the delay between albums was caused by the decision to scrap an album of recordings the band decided sounded too ‘folky’.

“All we did basically for about a year was listen to folk music so the music we were making got really, really folky, kind of proggy folk,” Righton claims. “We made an album’s worth of stuff. It was great music, we were all really happy with it. But it just wasn’t us. We thought, ‘this isn’t what we are’.”

“Literally we sat on it for about a week or two. We knew that it wasn’t right. It was fairly similar to the MGMT record… which is still a really good record, but it’s not the commercial record the last one was.”

The first single from Surfing The Void is still very true to what we heard on Myths Of The Near Future, with some extra percussion pounds (courtesy of producer Ross Robinson who helmed work from the likes of Limp Bizkit and At The Drive-In among others) thrown into the messy dance punk mix. Just don’t call it new-rave.