Rousing rave from the grave

[Dave Monroe]

Rousing rave from the grave

Was the New Rave movement manufactured by the music
press? Klaxons' frenzied, adoring fans couldn't care
less, says Kitty Empire

Sunday October 15, 2006
The Observer

Klaxons
Northampton Soundhaus

How many glowsticks does it take to prop up a New Rave
movement? ...

[...]

Does New Rave really exist beyond the borders of
Hoxton, London's crucible of asymmetric hair and
irony? .... Did the Machiavellian low dogs at NME HQ
make up New Rave in an editorial meeting one wet
Tuesday? Perhaps. Nothing excites the weekly music
press as much as a breaking scene. But the term itself
was actually coined by tour headliners and
next-year's-big-things Klaxons.

[...]

New rave or no, the excitement around these
cheerleaders for mayhem is largely justified. Their
first single, 'Gravity's Rainbow' (pace Thomas
Pynchon), comes on like a prog-pop landslide burying a
house piano alive. It sounds even better live than it
did on MTV2, where Gravity's optic nerve-frazzling
video outclassed most others last summer....

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1922523,00.html

The Klaxons, "Gravity's Rainbow"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CYQJ9b-C3j0

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