Good stuff, but I think there's too much hype surrounding them. I expect their next Album will suffer because of it. Whatever, this isn't a new sub-genre whatever you may think, Soulwax and Ladytron to name but two have been doing this for yeeeeeeeears.

That said, it's a very good album, good and rocky with Gravity's Rainbow a great song (probably referencing the Pynchon book of the same title, but I haven't read it yet!)
and Magick (Alesteir Crowley perhaps? are Klaxons actually Ordo Templi Orientis?) both anthems in their own right.

Whatever I say about them, they've got talent, aand they're championing intellectualism with their music, which is a great move for an otherwise stagnant and depressing youth culture.

making this one of my fave albums of 2007. I never really knew much of them until I saw them live at Reading. Bought the album when I got home and now I absolutely love it. I was lucky to see them live also in Amsterdam.

Top notch. They definitely deserved the Mercury Award.

When they hold a tune they are a very good band. When they don't they're not. The songs released as singles are pure pop but someone needs to look at the quality chart on the other tracks. As usual the Mercury Price courts controversy with its choice of winner.