British trio The Klaxons have been talking up their new album today, declaring it ‘like the first record times a thousand.’
Speaking in the Daily Star newspaper, singer/bassist Jamie Reynolds said he now feels that his band are ‘unstoppable’: “We’re now a full-force, unstoppable band,” he said. “Our producer Ross Robinson made us into a band. He’s given us total confidence as musicians, both collectively and as individuals. Before we were four people who had great ideas knocking about but who didn’t always know how to achieve them. Ross has taught us how to do that, while turning us into a hard-playing band.”
With work on the new album almost finished, Reynolds also told the paper that the new songs will be perfect for live gigs as they prepare for a small tour in June ahead of appearances at this year’s Reading/Leeds Festivals. “We’ve just started rehearsals and in the first day and a half of those we nailed playing the whole of the second album live,” he continued. “It’s much more of a live record than ‘Myths Of The Near Future‘. Playing it live is going to be amazing. In these rehearsals, I’ve realised what it is that I do as a musician – what I’m here to do. We haven’t massively ventured off, it’s kind of the same thing but times itself – bigger, fuller.”
Reynolds was also quick to dismiss claims that the wait for new material from the band was down to a creative block which led to sub-standard tracks, saying they needed time to ‘figure things out’. “It’s been quite a long journey, which has been one of us finding ourselves and blossoming, and that’s taken some time after everything that happened to us. Our label Polydor really liked what we’d done, they simply granted us more time to get to where we needed to be. The whole thing about ‘rejecting’ us and that we were sticking it to the man, it’s just not true. They’ve been supportive the entire time.”
Ushering in the so-called ‘New-Rave’ scene upon the release of their debut album ‘Myths Of The Near Future’ in 2007, the band found instant critical acclaim and won the Mercury Music Prize that year, beating off stiff competition from the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse and Bat For Lashes.
Their new record is set for release this year.