Klaxons' "Echoes" Premiere This Saturday
After spending last weekend in the blistering heat of the white desert Egypt, Klaxons have returned with a video for the single "Echoes" and now it's nearly time to put it out there into the world. Pitchfork will be showing "Echoes" first this Saturday, before being unleashed to Australian audiences with some extra exciting news from Monday July 19th.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Pre-order Surfing The Void now from Get Music, JB Hi-Fi and the Modular Shop.
Listen: Klaxons - Echoes (Teaser)
Preparing us all for what to expect (or perhaps what not to expect) with the teaser track "Flashover" last month, Klaxons are now ready raring to go with their full sonic assault, kicking off proceedings with Surfing The Void's lead single, "Echoes".
Surfing The Void is available in Australia/New Zealand August 20.
Pre-order Surfing The Void now from Get Music, JB Hi-Fi and the Modular Shop.
Klaxons' "Surfing The Void" Artwork and Tracklist Revealed
1. Echoes
2. The Same Space
3. Surfing The Void
4. Valley of The Calm Trees
5. Venusia
6. Extra Astronomical
7. Twin Flames
8. Flashover
9. Future Memories
10. Cypherspeed
Klaxons Play UK
Klaxons returned to the live arena late last week, playing both Southend Chinnery's and Colchester's Arts Centre in UK. The pair of gigs came just after the band revealed the first taste of their upcoming sophomore album last week, "Flashover", which was performed alongside 5 other new songs in addition to oldies like "Golden Skans" and "Atlantis To Interzone".
More details about album number two coming very soon.
(Photo credit: Tim Cochrane)
Hear "Flashover" Streaming on Klaxons.net Now
It's been 3 years since Klaxons burst onto the music scene, injecting a dazzling and much needed moment of rave hedonism into the midst of indie tedium with the truly original and enormously influential Mercury award-winning album Myths Of The Near Future.
Klaxons are set to launch their Ross Robinson-produced sophomore album later in the year and will be using the Reading And Leeds Festivals in the UK to launch the anticipated record. Guitarist Simon Taylor-Davies recently told NME: "One of the fundamental things about this new record is how much of a live record it is: it was written and recorded with the four of us in a room facing each, in a room that was about three metres squared."
Klaxons To Release First Great Record Of 2010
Klaxons have unveiled new info on their forthcoming LP. Speaking with an eager BBC Music, Jamie Reynolds spilt the beans on the elusive trio's latest biz. "We've got 28 songs, and we're just about to put it together as a complete record" he proclaimed. Originally slated for 2009, the lads have pushed back the release until 2010... "We'd really like to put out the first great record of the 2010s rather than the last great one of this decade. Now that's become an aspiration and a goal." Excited?
Ladyhawke Tops NME Cool List
Ladyhawke has had her debut in NME's annual cool list, coming in at number six. We've always known Pip is cooler than the other side of the pillow and NME have just confirmed it, saying:
Live she's so shy she can barely look at the audience, yet Pip Brown's limitations as a performer are an intrinsic part of her appeal, creating an enthralling disjunction between the euphoria of the music and the punishing self-doubt of its creator.
Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons also made the cut.
November 6, 2008 at 11:20am in news, Ladyhawke, Klaxons, Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Post A Comment
Modcast #6: Gus Da Hoodrat
Mad jams from Cut Copy, Klaxons, MSTRKRFT, The Black Keys, The Rapture, and Softlightes.
February 20, 2007 at 9:14am in modcast, Klaxons, Cut Copy, Softlightes : Post A Comment
Klaxons
It's no coincidence that the word 'klaxon' derives from the Greek word for 'to shriek,' for when self-proclaimed London "nu-ravers" Klaxons burst into the scene like rebellious extra-terrestrial beings without a cause, they caused nothing but shrieking.
