After 3 years of mistery and a finished album rejected by their label, the godfathers of Nu-Rave and all the electro indie music that has filled the internet, the clubs and the “airwaves” have finally released a new song.
You won’t like Flashover if you are expecting another Golden Skans, it’s not poppy, it’s not radio friendly,it’s not day-glo and no one will be flashing glowsticks around when they hear it live; it’s dark, evil and rocks pretty hard.
It sounds like the soundtrack of a party in a dark and wet cave with the only lights being intermittent strobes flashing while a colony of ghouls and fiends jump around enough to piss off Gollum, who lives in the next door cave and keeps banging on the walls praying for less noise.
The long-awaited sophomore album, at the moment under the working title Surfing the Void should be released in the autumn and Flashover is a taste of what is to come. All I can keep wondering is when will we hear the album that was rejected by their label? Why weren’t Klaxons allowed to release what they wanted to do? Probably because their prog influences took them too far away from radio friendliness, but is that a bad thing? Maybe for their label..
