The face of NME's recent "new rave" obsession, Klaxons are a pill-popping triotrading in dark, freak dance rock who enjoy spray painting themselves fluoroscently and saying things like "MDMA-zing!" and "E-Tard." It's all meant to be an ironic take on '90s rave, but the difference between Ecstasy ingestion and post-modern Ecstasy ingestion is about three syllables. Here's the clip for their first major label single:
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And a marginally better song from the band's Xan Valleys EP.
Klaxons - "Gravity's Rainbow" (MP3)
Other "new rave" bands include Shitdisco and Norway's Datarock (whom we saw in Oslo and thought were fucking atrocious). The sound is sweeping the UK okay, but ya think it's got American legs? Surprisingly, that indie band life-o-meter doesn't have the plus/minus on "penchant for Day-Glo," so we're at a loss.
