2007
New Rave, they called it. One of the scenes created by the NME in order to sell issues and tickets to the yearly awards tour, by lumping together a bunch of similar sounding but unrelated acts. This year it was the turn of a group of artists who fused indie rock with acid house and rave sounds, adopting the fashions that went along with that. To be quite honest, the only ones who matter - and had any success - were Klaxons. Littering their rave-rock with philosophical, metaphysical, psychedelic, and science fiction referencing lyrics, dressed in day-glo garb, and making bonkers music videos, it would have been hard for them to not be a hit. They'd surfaced the year before with a couple of independent releases, of which "Atlantis To Interzone" was one of my regular downloads. Another single, "Magick", cracked the Top 30 in the latter part of 2006, the band now signed to Polydor. When "Golden Skans" was released early in 2007, it raised my expectations f