Klaxons and its extraordinary tales in UK tour dates
With Klaxons’ debut album, we could foresee the future: it was colourful, fun, psychedelic. Above all, it was danceable – the type of dance when arms stand high above heads and feet high above the floor. It was like a trance, and we liked it. Klaxons was so difficult to pin down that the British press created a label just for them: new rave.
But as if following James Murphy’s predictions in the song Losing my Edge, next time we heard about Klaxons they had ditched the turntables and embraced the guitars for Surfing the Void, an album at once dense and dreamy, with heavy guitars, out of time keyboards and vocal that reminds of grunting. Then came the interviews: there were tales of biblical visions and Ayuhasca, collective consciousness and the world shift, bringing together of humanity and shamanism.
It could be worrying but there is no ordinariness in Klaxons and its vision can still be clearly perceived behind it all. They are determined to create something extraordinary, and the only way of achieving it is standing where few people have been before. Unlike Samson, Klaxons strength survived Delilah and they can still wrest a lion a day.
Klaxons UK tour dates: Manchester (Nov 11), Norwich (Nov 12), Bournemouth (Nov 13), Nottingham (Nov 14), London (Nov 16), Cambridge (Nov 17), Oxford (Nov 18), Birmingham (Nov 20), Glasgow (Nov 21), Leeds (Nov 22).