CD Review: "Magick" by Klaxons
Reviewer: Lucy Moore

Last time we met rave was somewhere in an abandoned warehouse on the M25, strung out on ecstasy. The most main stream it ever got was The Prodigy who in many respects were seen as selling out. Welcome then, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the saviours of rave who are back, dragging it into the mainstream. Although the DIY ethic and the neon colours still remain, Klaxons have updated the genre to become the NME darlings and headliners of the nu- rave NME tour both this year and next year in venues all across the country. ‘Magick’ starts out in a far more produced and darker place than the more lighthearted feel of songs such as ‘Atlantis to Interzone’ and their cover of joke record ‘The Bouncer’ have previously done. The repetitive siren sounds and a darker tone on this record owe much to PIL and seem to suggest it might indeed be the end of the world. Still, if this is the case, Klaxons are determined that we go to the grave glow stick in hand and the pounding drums mean that yet again Klaxons have made us shut up thinking and just dance. The way it should be. The b side of this single ‘Hall of records’ repeats the refrain ‘come on and dance with me’.

Who could argue?

 

Lucy Moore.