The Klaxons - Echoes (Polydor)
3/5
By: Samuel Smith
Since seeing The Klaxons pronouncing (during a Desert Island Discs kind of affair on a particularly well-known TV channel) that their biggest inspirations were Liars’ Drum's Not Dead and Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, I always felt they had more hidden substance than the day-glo-pogo-rock peddled by their massive VodkaRedBullIndieDance Singles and, while this isn't the hugest leap in what could be an interestingly progressive direction, it does show some significant potential.
The not-obvious without hi-hat/with hi-hat verse to chorus transition is still there, as is the over-compressed rhythmic bass-line, but everything else seems to progress from where the better point of Myths of the Near Future left off; the lyrical obsession with witchcraft and the other that album highlight ‘Magick’ sinisterly vocalised, dirty sweeps of ripped paper guitars etc.
Not the attention grabbing single the record label probably expected, but a step towards the more obscure which will hopefully drag these boys from the indie disco and into the world of pain, discomfort and fear that their inspirations Liars like to call 'reality'.
Artists in this article: Klaxons
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