Klaxons review 'A peculiar new brand of electronic pomp'

The Mercury prize-winners' oddball collection of acid-fried electro-rock and dreamy rave from their forthcoming album Love Frequency leads Klaxons back to the dance floor

Klaxons have never made it easy for themselves. Since the trio invented the short-lived new-rave scene for a laugh and released their debut album in 2006, they've embarked on many a ridiculous endeavour. Factor in a trip to the Amazon to take a face full of psychedelic drugs to "find inspiration", or wearing hooded capes without irony, and it's no wonder they're derided as dicks in DayGlo.

All this makes it easy to forget that they've achieved an awful lot. There was the time they won the Mercury prize for Myths of the Near Future (2007) and they performed with Rihanna at the Brits. Both of their albums made the top 10, they opened Blur's comeback shows and one of them even managed to marry Keira Knightley.

by Kate Hutchinson via Electronic music | The Guardian