Who the Hell are the Klaxons?
Sep 5th, 2007 by Donagh
Apparently they’ve won some music prize.
Here’s a song called Golden Skans…
More Klaxons via hypemachine.
In other news, the OECD’s chief economist, Jean-Philippe Cotis, warned today that the fallout from the housing crisis in the US could trigger a recession in the world’s leading economy.
Bugger.
“Mr Cotis said in an interview with Reuters that he was not predicting a recession in the US but could not rule one out either because it was impossible at present to evaluate the full cost of the crash in America’s housing market.”
Fuck.
Over at Forbes, related news has percolated out:
“Separately, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development on Wednesday said in its flagship annual report that woes in the housing market will drag U.S. GDP growth to a modest 2 percent growth in 2007, compared with 3.3 percent last year.”
Nuts.
AFP spin it thus:
“The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development marked down its forecasts for the G7 as a whole, with eurozone powerhouses France, Germany and the United States predicted to be much weaker than previously expected.”
Hmmm…
Time to put on the headphones and bop along to the Klaxons and their ‘new rave music’, whatever the hell that is.
UPDATE:
Sinead Gleeson is back blogging, and is giving off about the Klaxon’s winning the Mercury Music prize. Can’t say I care for the Klaxon’s at all, as I haven’t heard any of their music. It was always there, but their sort NME promoted blandness doesn’t interest me in the slightest.
Now Bat for Lashes, another nominee for the Mercury prize, she’s more up my street…
I got so annoyed about them winning that I started blogging again.
And I’m very glad to see it too. I’ve just put a comment up. Oh, you’re right about the Klaxtons, what a shower of….
And the tabloid aspect of it. Reading the reports on the awards ceremony all gutter press eyes were on Amy Winehouse.
If I cared about such things, I’d say that Bat for Lashes should have got it by a mile.
Hope all is continuing to go well and that Iarla is blooming. Little Emmet is now nine months old and we’ve been getting regular sleep for a while. It is possible, though it seems easier on the second. I don’t think we got proper sleep for the first year with Hannah.
Klaxons are a pretty unimaginative bunch. Jim Carroll gave the album one star (ouch!) when he reviewed it for the Ticket earlier this year.
I LOVE the Bat for Lashes album. Check out the video for What’s a Girl To Do with dudes on BMXs wearing animal heads and doing bunny hops.
Donagh, he’s doing great. Three months old today, I can’t believe it! The sleep thing is ok, he’s slipped back a bit this week but I believe we’re in the middle of a “growth spurt” so that might explain it.
Hope Emmet is thriving.
Mr. Alexis Petridis of the most steamed Guardian calls it a ‘fantastic debut album’. I thought he had better taste than that, but I’d better refrain from rubbishing the opinion of music journalists;)
I’ve only got into Bat for Lashes recently. In fact I spent the morning listening to nothing else. I’ll check out the video, but What’s a Girl To Do is actually that stands out for me. I also really liked Horse & I and Bat’s Mouth.
Yea, I hear that “growth spurt” thing alot. That and ‘it’s their teeth’. That growth spurt thing though has a B Movie vibe (to me at least). Weeks go by without you needing to get new baby grow because he still hasn’t grown out of the old ones. Then one morning you look at him in his cot and its like the incredible hulk, with the clothes you put him in the night before ripped to pieces.
Three months! Already? After five it’ll plain sailing, in my experience.
Emmet is indeed thriving. He laughs a lot. Which helps.