New Rave, New Backlash

The British media's much anticipated backlash against new rave kicked off this week
with both the Observer newspaper and NME jumping on the new Klaxons album to write
the first obituaries of their previously much hyped next big thing genre.

"Burying new rave a year after they started it, Klaxons and white-hot producer James
Ford have, instead, made a deliriously insistent pop record whose antecedents
include Bowie and Blur," Observer (and ex-NME) journo Kitty Empire declared in an
article headlined 'New rave is dead; long live the Klaxons'.

'Although the glare of glow-sticks may have lit this three-piece's way to a deal
with Polydor, they might live to regret the new rave tag," she predicted.

NME, meanwhile, went further claiming new rave 'has become little more than a
serotonin drought in the brains of its disciples . . . a john teshing albatross around
the neck of the most thrilling and visionary band Britain's had in more than a
decade' (ie the Klaxons).

http://www.nme.com ('Nearly a decade ago, rave died as the bloated bastard was
kicked from its nightclub residency by a generation of indie kids, etc etc . . .)