Klaxons

Corr who’d have thought it? Made-up music scene proves less flimsy than the paper it’s printed on. Who knows what it is about New Rave, the bands, the dancing, the drugs or, most likely, the glowsticks but it’s really happening and it’s really fucking great. People have embraced the media-led return to acid-house era raving, this time the faceless producers and DJs replaced with real life bands you can touch. It’s glaringly bright, blearingly loud and so fast paced it seems over before it starts.

Holding post atop this neon disco-dingy Klaxons commandeer, concocting bass rumbling, hook heavy speed-punk, with a sprinkling of rave sirens and sampler hits that hark back the pill mania of ’89 first time round. Plug’s wired as the band take the stage and glowsticks rocket through the air as once-bottlers give into their new high speed culture.

Tossing out their best known (and best) track ‘Atlantis To Interzone’ as the second song doesn’t blow their load to early. Inciting a wild new brand of rave moshing, it sets the crowd up for 45 minutes of hyper-rave that they can’t get enough of. New single ‘Magick’ is a mid-set re-router, sending those going up, down; left, right; inside, out. The head-spinningly visceral crowd response to finale double-shot ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ and ‘4 horseman of 2012’ is testament to their willingness to embrace all this party has to offer. God knows what a Klaxons album would sound like, but out there on the dance floor, you can’t go wrong...

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