Album Review: Klaxons - Surfing The Void

It’s unlikely that there is anyone who rues the day the words ‘nu’ and ‘rave’ were brought together more than the Klaxons. It instantaneously bestowed upon them a cultural significance that their collective shoulders were never going to be able to bear. The proof is in the three years since the release of their debut, whereby the recording and release of a follow-up album became a Herculean task unto itself. Just how experimental their label-rejected initial attempt at it was, we may never know, but the finished result most definitely kicks against the type and suggests that this is a band that never wants to see a glow stick ever again.

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