Klaxons have tried to create a new sound by mashing up different elements borrowed from their favourite bands. This could have made for something truly revolutionary but, so far, they haven’t quite hit the mark.

Two Receivers provides a good opening for the album. Until, that is, the vocals come in and destroy its grandeur. From there on the song lies down flat and just waits for itself to be over. Then there’s Atlantis To Interzone, on which the band have clearly put a lot of effort into making a section that will sound great at a festival, though this is to the detriment of other parts of the song, which just seem thrown in thoughtlessly.

There are plenty of songs on the album that are more complete than these but those are the ones that borrow just a little bit too heavy from their influences. Eventually, trying to work out where I’ve heard each section before becomes too much of an effort and I lose all interest.

For a band who offer so much, Klaxons deliver surprisingly little.

Label: Rinse / Polydor
Website: www.klaxons.net
Release date: 29th January 2007

Tracklist:

Two Receivers
Atlantis To Interzone
Golden Skans
Totem On The Timeline
As Above, So Below
Isle Of Her
Gravity’s Rainbow
Forgotten Works
Magick
It’s Not Over Yet
Four Horsemen Of 2012