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Klaxons have named their second album 'Surfing The Void'.

 

The album, the follow-up to their 2007 debut 'Myths Of The Near Future', will feature ten new songs and will be preceded by a single, 'Echoes', released August 16. The album follows on August 23.

 

It was produced by Ross Robinson (Korn, Slipknot) in Los Angeles following various aborted and rejected album sessions, including Milan sessions with producer James Ford.

 

Klaxons recently made album track 'Flashover' available to listen to online.

 

The tracklisting of 'Surfing The Void' is:

 

'Echoes'

'Same Space'

'Surfing The Void'

'Valley Of The Calm Trees'

'Venusia'

'Extra Astronomical'

'Twin Flames'

'Flashover'

'Future Memories'

'Cypher Speed'

 

Edited June 15, 201015 yr by Rich

This'll be interesting, I loved their first album at the time but it hasn't really stood the test of time for me. I guess that's normal though for something that was a 'fad' sound.

Wow, it's brilliant!

 

Excited for the album!

This'll be interesting, I loved their first album at the time but it hasn't really stood the test of time for me. I guess that's normal though for something that was a 'fad' sound.

 

 

Surely if it doesn't stand the test of time then it was rubbish in the first place?

 

How can something lose what makes it great?

Surely if it doesn't stand the test of time then it was rubbish in the first place?

 

How can something lose what makes it great?

 

Easily, stuff does sometimes lose its appeal. I guess the whole sound was quite throwaway.

No wonder I never really liked them - apart from 2 good singles the album was rubbish. So the sound was throwaway - the underlying songs should stand up even of the sound was rubbish.

 

 

 

 

No wonder I never really liked them - apart from 2 good singles the album was rubbish. So the sound was throwaway - the underlying songs should stand up even of the sound was rubbish.

 

Hence why he said the the album. I'm sure he still likes the odd song.

 

 

The album was good, never anything OMGAMAZING for me though. Some decent tracks.

I tend to not like stuff from the start or it grows on me. It's rare anything is great at the start and then starts to fade. It happened more when I was younger I suppose.

The album was terrible.

 

It's been over 4 years though? Kinell. They need to come back with something special, they've had long enough (I know they had to scrap a planned album though).

Flashover is pretty poor, just been to their site to listen. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the moment they learned how to play their instruments they became tired and boring. Now their scene has moved on and they're going to find it hard to appeal to anyone but the most ardent fans of their massively overrated debut.

Flashover could easily have been stuck somewhere on the first album and it wouldn't have sounded out of place at all. Not that it's a bad song as such but it's a little disappointing that they've shown very little progression or change of direction.

 

That said, it's only one song and it'd be harsh to write off the album based on that. I'm one of the few people that actually enjoyed MOTNF, so at the very least i'll be giving Surfing The Void a listen.

They should have called the album Myths of the Near Past if there's no real progression.

No wonder I never really liked them - apart from 2 good singles the album was rubbish. So the sound was throwaway - the underlying songs should stand up even of the sound was rubbish.

 

Yeah, I still like a few of them particularly including 'Gravity's Rainbow' and 'Atlantis To Interzone' which are still excellent, but I doubt I'd even consider playing the whole album through these days.

$h!t band. first album was awful, i think it's the only album that has ever compeltly put me off a band. The whole "Nu Rave" thing was such complete bollocks. this band probaly could of stayed slightly different if it wasnt for the massive recognition, NME killed this band.

 

That said 'Magick' is a good tune, if they kept with the dark image of the video (im sure that was a pisstake video, but I liked the darkness of it) and not made $h!t songs like, every other song they have apart from 'Magick' then there would of been hope for them.

Excited for this although i fear a major flop! Loved the first album - Still listen to it now especially NOY :wub:

Yeah 'Magick', 'Gravitys Rainbow' and 'Atlantis to Interzone' were all really good pre-album singles, but when it arrived all the new tracks were pretty awful. It was a bit like 'I Should Coco' by Supergrass where you already knew the good tracks before the release and everything written specially for the record was poor.

 

I do feel for the band though re:new rave. That was a horrible scene created by some idiot at the NME and not one of the bands apparently fronting it even knew what it was. Klaxons ended up in there by virtue of their cover of 'The Bouncer' and were tarred with that stupid phrase from then on.

I quite liked the album. Obviously it wasn't as good as it was made out to be (especially by NME) but I still really liked it.

Haven't listened to it for a while but I could definitely listen to the whole thing all through still.

 

I'm not too impressed by 'Flashover' it has to be said but I've still got hopes for the album!

Did any of the nu rave bands actually make rave music or music that had rave elements?

Did any of the nu rave bands actually make rave music or music that had rave elements?

 

nah NME just pretended they did. it's funny looking through NME's at those times, full of such bull$h!t, I remember a feature with The Rapture where NME claimed they were the "kings of nu rave" despite the term never even existing when they released their first album, they were just making $h!t up.

Did any of the nu rave bands actually make rave music or music that had rave elements?

 

In the Reading 2006 special they asked around ten bands if they'd be "flying the flag for New Rave" on the smaller stages.

 

I think every single band answered, "What? What's that?"

 

They sponsored a "new rave" tour at the same time with Klaxons, $h!tdisco and Datarock - none of whom did anything "rave". They had keyboards, yes. Then the NME proclaimed "Kitsune Maison Vol. 3" as the "first new rave" compilation when it was just a compilation of records released on the Kitsune label.

 

It was the worst attempt at creating a scene ever and coincided with the death of the NME. Poor Krissi Murison is trying to get it back on track but that arsehole McNicholas and his toadying cronies destroyed it.