Klaxons - Surfing the Void

allmusic“A difficult album on many levels...” Though Surfing the Void is less accessible than Klaxons’ debut, it’s still so tightly structured that things never get completely out of hand. “Venusia” wants to scale Muse's heights, but its density and straightforward structure elude epic s

Pitchfork“A gloriously fun mess...” Surfing occasionally fails and does so loudly, but there's something thrillingly unfashionable about how Klaxons take aim at their grayer peers with a tommy gun full of glowsticks...

Drowned In Sound“An interesting, and mostly rewarding collection of songs...” While the likelihood of it achieving the same levels of critical or commercial success that Myths Of The Near Future enjoyed is debatable, Klaxons' status as one of the most confounding entities in the UK's languid music scene is cemented...

NME“One of the best pop albums of the year...” Sometimes it takes a person in a sensible suit to tell you that your destiny is to make an album of planet-surfing tech-pop with Jupiter-sized choruses...

The Telegraph“A real victory from the jaws of defeat...” Ross Robinson, the renowned “nu-metal” producer, apparently drilled them hard, sharpening both their melodic charms and their outré literary/philosophical ideas...

The Independent“An ear-jolting, borderline mind-blowing listen...” Surfing the Void is a denser, more complex and intense experience than its predecessor, as well as being noisier, more distorted and more mangled...

Guardian“The difficult second album...” Klaxons' ambition to stand apart from the grey indie hordes, to race by in a blur of outlandish rhetoric and pupil-dilating intensity, is admirable, but there are too many road bumps on this particular trip...

MusicOMH“One of UK music's more enjoyable and innovative bunch of eccentrics...” An album that sees some interesting development in the band's sound, and one that will arguably hold up against its prize-winning predecessor...

Uncut“Not yet reviewed”

Dusted Magazine“Not yet reviewed”