Klaxons have produced a fine debut album, which will no doubt please fans of the band and no doubt will guarantee them success however at only thirty-five minutes in length, you long for a couple of more tracks. The album closes with an all out apocalypse on 'Four Horsemen Of 2012' with distorted vocals and air raid siren sound piercing through your mind. Their cover of Grace's 1995 club hit 'Not Over Yet' is inspired but isn't as good as their cover of novelty rave hit 'The Bouncer' which unfortunately isn't included on this album. 'Gravity's Rainbow', a twisted love song with its frenzy of dirty drumbeats and crazy guitar riffs which feel like you are being whisked across the universe is defiantly the best song on this album, sadly its over too quickly. Its Klaxons attempt to try something a little different that shows promise in this band. A hypnotic background beat and a chant of 'Row! There's only seven more miles to go' makes you feel like you are a part of the song, and is a break from the more dance influenced tracks on the rest of Myths, it also will serve as the ideal music for the next deodorant advert for blokes. One of the more bizarre tracks on the album and in turn one of the best is the mysterious 'Isle Of Her'. Nineties nostalgia is apparent on 'Totem On The Timeline', a rockier number about club 18-30 holidays, which had it been released around the same time would have made a worthy competitor to Blur's 'Boys And Girls', 'As Above So Below', which could best be described as space jazz, with lyrics that make no sense and an immense distortion before the chorus kicks in, you'll find yourself singing along but confused as to which parts you want to be singing. Much loved single 'Atlantis To Interzone', a track with so much going on in it is the most rave you'll find on this album making you want to dance like an idiot with glowsticks in both hands whilst blowing a whistle. The album begins with 'Two Receivers' slowly fading in with a slow distorted drumbeat which feels like thunder before breaking into space age pop featuring a hybrid of lyrics inspired by science-fiction and literature before closing with layered Beach Boys style harmonies cropping up again in current single 'Golden Skans', which is tinged in disco with catchy sing-a-long choruses, the song make reference to JG Ballard's book Myths Of The Near Future, after which the album was named. Debut album Myths Of The Near Future isn't quite 'nu-rave' but it is defiantly unique with each of the tracks offering something different.

Klaxons are the apparent leaders of the 'Nu-Rave' scene, which capitalises on resurrecting the heydays of smiley face t-shirts, glowsticks and all night rave parties. Hyped bands, there's never a short supply of them, and they always come along like the latest Christmas toy fad, always with something new to offer.

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