Gravity’s Rainbowie: Klaxons enlist Visconti for new record
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Interesting sound abound… Klaxons are to work with the inimitable Tony Visconti on the follow-up to Myths of the Near Future.
The producer, who manned controls for albums like David Bowie’s revered ‘Berlin Trilogy’ of Low, Heroes and Lodger, will join the trio in the studio next February.
“At the end of February we’re going in the studio with Tony Visconti to do a couple of tracks,” James Righton told BBC6Music.
“He’s just a lovely man. He came along to a few of our New York shows and was interested, so we’re gonna try him out.”
The band also revealed how they’ve been knuckling down more of late, battling to up their game.
“Its only pretty much in the last four, five months that we’ve actually been able to play the album well,” stated Righton.“When we started out, we couldn’t really play our instruments. A tour manager came in, in January and said ‘you guys aren’t good enough,’ which was brutally honest. So we stopped partying as much and started working hard.”
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Klaxons
to be honest..
they still cant fucking play em.
they've got
huuuugely better though. Which is kind of sad, I liked the ramshackle.
Fancy
being a signed band and being told you aren't good enough to play songs you wrote yourself.
didnt james
ford write a lot of them?
Fucking shite band
hate Hate HATE THEM
Cracking live band.
Nice chaps.
"Crackiling Live Band"???
THEY CAN'T SING, tone deaf and flat in the extreme
Utterly overrated on every level
I think they're okay live
and great on record. I voted for them as one of the DiS albums of the year. *expects barrage of abuse*
They make
me sick. a complete waste fo space. why do we even feed these people? think of all the much more worthy Africans we could save.
haha
it was perfectly alright to say that you disliked their music. Which a lot of people love, and would probably get at least mildly upset if "we" stopped feeding them :P
I can understand why people dislike Klaxons
... and I will say no more.
This does not alter the fact that MOTNF was a superb album, and one of the very best of 2007. Time will show it to be one of the more important albums of the decade, and this is a view widely held. To appreciate the reasons for this comment though you must consider the release of MOTNF in the totality of things, and not just the absolute measure of the quality of the songs, good as they are.
Klaxons and MOTNF have had an impact upon media arts way above their peers.
I have only seen them once and it was from the very back row of the Manchester Apollo, on 26 November. I had very low expectations of what the sound would be like, given the comments on DiS.
It was quite a warm up from Crystal Castles and SMD. However while you could see a great number of people making as if they wanted to get on their feet, the audience was surprisingly subdued. Not even the wonderful build up of Crimewave did it - and listening to this live was for me one of the finest moments of the year.
All this was such a contrast to Klaxons. The reception was wild, and the audience was partying like the world was about to end. However, the band concentrated on the quality of their act, and it clearly paid off.
At the end of the gig, Klaxons played a new song, and James ended by telling us that indeed they were not over yet. I am personally convinced that he is right, and if they succeed in avoiding the temptations thrown their way by the likes of NME journalists, we could hear great things from them in 2008.
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