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Luckily for Jamie Reynolds, James Righton and Simon Taylor-Davis, they were able to laugh the entire caper off as a private joke that got out of hand, and if their 2007 debut album Myths of the Near Future has worn about as well as the reedy earliest efforts of, say, Depeche Mode and The Prodigy, then Surfing the Void finds them operating nearer those two bands’ high water marks: Violator and The Fat of the Land.
The catalyst for this miraculous turnaround appears to be the unlikely figure of producer Ross Robinson, better known for sprinkling his angle grinder’s fairy dust on albums by Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot. Earlier sessions with Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford resulted in Polydor supposedly rejecting the first version of the album, but Robinson is an inspired choice, his way with skull-crushing density ‘roiding up Klaxons’ sound like a muscle mary. There’s no smoke without fire, however, and the band still needed to come up with the framework on which Robinson could hang his sonic black holes.
Don’t despair space cadets: it’s not as if Klaxons have ditched the sort of lyrical nonsense that had Reynolds asking us to “flank my foghorn” on Gravity’s Rainbow. Oh no. As Extra Astronomical, Cypherspeed and the title-track all suggest, the same sort of eccentricity that sees Matt Bellamy pegged as a loveable boffin is well intact, but it’s the sheer depth of the sound that drags you in like ultimate gravity. Also intact is their underlying pop instinct, common to every band Robinson works with, but he never gets in the way of the basic thrills on stadium-sized single Echoes or the rushing Flashover.
It may stick in the craw of anyone who previously dismissed Klaxons as callow stooges in a record company marketing plan, but against the odds it might be time to sit up and pay them some respect.
--Andy FyfeFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
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On my first listen i only really connected with a select few of the songs but after my 4th listen i'm now a big fan of the more powerful Klaxons. For example on first hearing 'Flashover' i thought it was fairly awful but it has no emerged as a favourite.
The bass in this album is phenomenal, like no other i have heard before. The bassist completely owns this record!!!
Oh and lead single 'Echoes' is a contender for song of the year, no doubt!
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