Klaxons: Myths from the Near Future
Somewhere in the distant future Klaxons deconstructed OK Computer and refashioned its themes, sonic textures, and shear brilliance into an alarmingly comparable DancePunk counter-part. What’s so refreshing is the lack of cowbells or Gang of Four. No disco beats either. Instead, we hear drumming that reference the intricate drumplay of Phil Selway except twice as ferocious. Jonny Greenwood’s effect-induced telecaster squelches can be heard between each utterences of “future loves” and “tangian deserts” on Gravity’s Rainbow. Airbag’s funky dub-like counterpart bass lines can be heard driving Golden Skans. The most obvious and common problem that falls upon most radiohead derivitve bands (i.e. Coldplay, Muse) is that they usually try to achieve the vocal greatness of Thom Yorke, SPECIFICALLY on The Bends. Klaxons distinguishes themselves from this pack due to the fact that all the images conjured up by the Klaxon’s future-mysticalism are delivered in this demented and omnious Greek Chorus fashion. Each song has a different variation of this delivary from mad-men frothing at the mouth urgency to beautiful “Let Down”-like outros to Wayne Cohen-like earnest.
It’s bewildering to think that OK Computer–the album that inspired me to take music seriously–happened a decade ago. And now exactly a decade later, three Klaxons instead of five guys from Oxford got me excited about music as the first time i heard the opening lines of Airbag.
Opening Song of Myths from the Near Future
Klaxons - Two Recievers (mp3)
Newest Single
Klaxons - Golden Skans (mp3)