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This is a Must Listen Album, This is Handy!

I'm so loving those Handee towel ads.

But anyway, to the point. About six weeks ago, Ambitious from KotB and I were discussing music tastes, and he recommended to me The Klaxons.

Naughtily, I downloaded the album, and listened to it maybe twice, then didn't listen to much music for a bit, apart from the few live gigs I went to over the weeks, or the horrendously old stuff on my phone's media player. Think 2003 top 100 (yes you may laugh), the odd 90s rock anthem and a tonne of Ben Folds/Five. Until... good old Mike told me that they'd got some copies in. So, last week, among other things, I updated my phone, stuffed it full of The Sproutts, Vorn, Grayson Gilmour (links in the sidebar, or soon to be), Flying Nun compilations and the Klaxons. And oh man, they are top on my "wake up with songs in my head" since then.

When buying Audio Agriculture last week, I committed myself to getting Myths of the Near Future in, er, the near future. Depends what time I finish work on Friday, maybe then on my way out to my sisters Dick warming party. Whoops, I mean deck (bleeming Australians mishearing her accent!), we're warming her deck. But moral of the story is, I'll be buying the album soon.

One review of the album I've read over at The Observer, states "What's endearing about the Klaxons is their lack of cool (pure rave, that) and their confusion. You get the sense they don't know exactly what they're aiming for, and the resulting mish-mash of crude energy and unfocused ambition leaves the listener gloriously befuddled." The intro to the track "Atlantis to Interzone" reminds me of EMF, "As Above, So Below" has elements that I believe are shared with Grayson, and so on throughout the album. Yet, it remains distinctly different.

I maintain that the Klaxons are cool, purely because I like them and then there's that gloriously befuddled feeling you get. I recommend them to anyone, just head over to their myspace and listen to the tracks there, get a taste! My favourites are Isle of Man (lyrics earlier), Totem on the Timeline, and well, all of the others. Give them a go!