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KLAXONS - Myths Of The Near Future
| Drowned in sound |
| For one minute, let's have some perspective. Let us all take a step back from the hyperbole, the 'hype' and the coining of new genres. Genres invented with the sole purpose of allowing lazy journalists, chattering around tables in JD Wetherspoon public houses, to appear more 'on it' than their contemporaries....full text |
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| The Independent |
| Myth has its own momentum. Take The Klaxons, now having to live down a presumably offhand description of them as part of some new rave movement. The truth lies deeper, as witness the references here to Pynchon and Burroughs, and the fact that the first musical influence mentioned on their MySpace site is the cult electro duo Silver Apples, the late-1960s pioneers who brought the rock aesthetic to electronic music....full text |
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| Times Online |
| Klaxons must have mixed feelings about the day when, rather sardonically, they described their music as “new rave”. Rapidly, trend-spotters had built a new cultural genre around the offhand remark, with Klaxons at its vanguard. The epithet, though, makes this exciting band seem much more gimmicky and limited than they really are. It’s Not Over Yet, for example, reveals Klaxons to be art-rockers, albeit ones clad in the Day- Glo finery of 1990s clubland....full text |
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