Myths Of The Near Future

Album is all over the place: some bangers, some slop Fave track: Golden Skans

Why is This Album on the List - part #8. 2/5

A fun dance punk indie outing. I would have loved this album had I found it in Middle School.

It was fine. Another English band that is out of place on a list like this.

Too weird for my tastes

Yeah, that's what indie rock sounded like in 2007.

4/10 An indie-rock focused album that won a Mercury Music Prize in the 2000s and barely got a sniff of success outside of the UK? Let’s see if it lives up to that shining overview, all we? In actual fact, I think there is a little bit of something to this. Unlike previous Mercury winners Franz Ferdinand, with whom critics compared them, I feel like there’s actually a bit more of a consistent vibe to this, a few more hooks and it generally engages my ear a little more. I found myself tapping my feet along with some of the rhythms and it did manage to drag me into its world now and then. Unfortunately, despite having some decent moments, things do kind of get swamped here and there by underdeveloped structures and repetitive songwriting. They do drift in and out of a generic indie-rock sound across the record, but at least there’s some attempt at developing a bit more interest and nuance to the sound, even if they don’t always pull it off. There were times when they built some decent sonic interest or grooves, but were let down by the lack of development of those ideas. Perhaps that’s a little churlish when most of the songs are under three and a half minutes, but I could have done with a bit more adventure to expand on the central ideas of the songs. In terms of overall sound, I don’t really get the ‘new rave’ label. Yeah, it’s got some synths on it, but it leans far more towards higher-tempo indie rock with a couple of synth lines than dance music to my ears. I suppose it’s a label meant to say ‘this will go down well at 1am in an indie club’, but it hardly screams ‘rave’ to me. The biggest problem I had with this is that the elements of it that I liked had been done in better and more inventive ways by other bands. Chuck me a Gorillaz, Electric Six, Everything Everything or M83 album and I could pick out elements of those that were my highlights on this album, but form part of a more stylistically and musically satisfying whole than Klaxons manage to offer. All in all, not awful, but not particularly great or memorable either. Two Receivers - It’s a decent enough start. Some nice driving drums and atmospheric synth work. It feels like it’s building to something. When the next section comes, it still feels like it’s building to something. I mean, it’s ok, but it seems to constantly hint at a destination that it never arrives at, and it’s a bit too repetitive while doing it. Atlantis To Interzone - Good lord, that ‘DJ’ casio keyboard sample is a terrible way to start things. It gets a bit better though. There’s nice pace and drive to it, and then it breaks into something akin to Electric Six. This isn’t bad really. The pacy verse vocals are a bit too on-the-nose 2000s indie for my liking, but the rest of it is pretty good. The way it’s put together doesn’t quite click 100%, but it’s a decent effort. Golden Skans - Ah, a single. Another that’s decent enough. The vocal lines in the pre-chorus and chorus feel a bit overwritten and could do with a bit more space. It also drags on a little too much through some of the sections, making it a bit too repetitive. Quite an achievement for a song that clocks in under three minutes. Add some variation lads! Totem On The Timeline - Generic 2000s indie rock beat - check. Generic 2000s indie rock riff - check. Generic 2000s indie rock vocal line - that’s a full house! It’s pretty derivative, but it’s got decent energy to it. It’s not bad, it’s just another one off the production line. As Above, So Below - The pace drops for this one. It’s a bit more plodding and the production is overly saturated, but in a way that isn’t particularly pleasant and doesn’t really fit the tone of the song. It’s a fairly by the numbers indie rock song, but it’s made worse by that odd production decision. Isle Of Her - It feels like there are some decent ideas in here, but the organisation of them just doesn’t expose them in a completely satisfying way. It’s almost got the tone of a Gorillaz song, but there’s not enough of a hook anywhere and it feels a bit disorganised and gets stuck on its ideas, rather than expanding on them. Gravity's Rainbow - There’s more pace to this and a decent shuffling little rhythm to it. Some of the guitar work is actually pretty good too, and I quite like the bass line and tone. There’s some nice range between the verse and chorus. It’s not necessarily the most inventive or innovative song, but for a two and a half minute pop-rocker, it’s pretty good. Forgotten Works - This has got a bit of underlying pace and drive to it from the bass and drums, but the rest of it is pretty monotonous and repetitively uninspired. I feel like this song was just washed over me and didn’t really offer much in the way of inspiration or intrigue. Magick - This is quite frantic from the instrumentation, but the vocals don’t match the intensity of it and the stilted vocal lines during the verses go on for too long and become quite irritating. I think there are some moments in here, but again it feels like a mish-mash of ideas and intensities that doesn’t quite achieve its goal or really feel completely coherent. It's Not Over Yet - This is a cover, and it’s not bad. Proper indie club night fare. There’s a good dynamic and pace shift between verse and chorus and it’s got some good hooks. I’m not ever going to be choosing to listen to this personally, but I can see why it was successful. Four Horsemen Of 2012 - This has got a bit more to it. The drive and grit of the instrumentation and the vocal actually match pretty well. It’s noisy and brash and has a bit of something about it. It doesn’t feel like anything particularly new, but it’s got a bit of weight and interest to it. It’s another that could get repetitive after a while, but it's only just over two minutes long so doesn’t get the chance.

This is good for the FIFA games loading screen, but I wouldn't sit and listen to it.

Etwas zu hastig und undefiniert

Meh

The one famous track saves the album from being just a piece of litter its era. It's noisy in an unpleasant way with none of the qualities of that have made their contemporaries long lasting. There's a couple of tracks that are totally unappealing but the ideas within run their course after 30s.

Very repetivie, not my genre + why would you add a song where 80% there is no sound... 1,5/5

More of the same. Relatively bland, yet always repetitious electronica. At least this one has some decent voices, but then they get buried in loops of noise. Shame. Sounds like some young guys heard Chemical Bros and thought that was good music, but then (at least!) added some better vocals too it. Sadly, not quite enough. I had to wait a couple of days to come back to this one to give it a fair shake. If I'd listened twice in 2 days, it would have gotten a 1 and some curse words. I'll give it a 2 because I'm sure someone likes this, perhaps while dancing on drugs. It's just not for me and won't ever be heard again.

Confuso, barulhento e insignificante.

I was a British indie fan who took music seriously when this came out. I bought the cd and i think i saw them live. Even i am surprised to see this here. It was only relevant as a couple of music journalists decided it was the new great thing, because there was a space for a new great thing to be filled. It doesn't really have anything that elevates it beyond thousands and thousands of other indie albums released every year and definitely should not be on this list

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Had never heard of this band so sorta used this one as a litmus test for the list altogether if not just the more contemporary additions to later editions of the book. Did not really appeal to me. I wonder what the American equivalent would be to a lot of these middling British bands.

This is a strange album to have in the book - an album from a fairly niche genre that existed for about 1 summer when nothing really interesting was happening. It's a mix of post-punk and some disco beats - dubbed New-Rave. Really it's just warmed over early noughties disco punk that bands form NYC had done so much better. Like the genre that the band named themselves, it's just not very good. Best Tracks: Golden Skans; Gravity's Rainbow; Magick

This got lumped in with the dance punk revival wave in the 2000s, but it lacks the immediacy of the best acts from that era. There's no obviously danceable "Take Me Out" or "House of Jealous Lovers" here. In a way it's closer to art rock, with creative drum beats buried under piano and guitar. Everything besides the drums are fairly uninteresting though, outside of some angular riffs near the end. It seems to want to make up for this with quirkiness, but everything that tries to be quirky - the lyrics, sudden rhythm changes - grates instead of excites. "Gravity's Rainbow" is both the most immediately satisfying track but also one of the most normal. There's probably a lot of fun to be had with this if you think the zaniness is done well, but I just can't get there.

Parts of this album are really well done and I get a MGMT vibe in a good way. Other parts sound very generic and seem like background music in a video game.

Just okay british alternative rock 2.5

Rapidly lost interest in this, two stars.

The selection of post 2000s albums on this list is so dogshit. That’s not to say this album in particular was awful; I didn’t really like it, but it wasn’t so bad. It’s just that so much good music has been released since 2000 but there’s so much super mediocre stuff in its place. I do not understand it at all

Meh. Didn't capture my attention back then or now. Mediocre outside of a couple catchy songs

I remember when this came out, and I thought the first 2 songs and the cover (it not over) were great but the rest was quite rubbish. I still feel like that today

This one reminds me at times of the music of MGMT. I have listened to this album, but my assessments are usually a bit more nuanced if I listen a couple of times. On my first and only listen, I didn't find their music very inviting. My own expectations of psychedelic music seem vastly different from theirs. Maybe I was not in a sufficiently susceptible mental state. Happy trails to them and their fans! 2

This was fine, some good tracks. This kind of 2000s music goes hard but I kind of forgot what I heard a few hours ago from it hehe.

Removed. Removed from the list means I don't listen to it if I don't feel like it, or if it has multiple indications that it might sound like Muse. To wit: Dog meat cover art, pretentious title, cringe English-major tracklist names. Removed records get 2stars. I think there's a lotta USAs on this journey who are frustrated with the UK slant of the list, and I feel it. Our curator is who he is, and someone else would be different but he's not someone else. It would be interesting to see the compare/contrast with a similarly USA-slanted list. What should happen is I get a lot of good UK records that are new to me, but what is happening instead is I have a reinforced impression of the UK music press being faddish and cynical, what with the national prize winners being thrown out of the canon a few years later.

Disjointed amalgam of genres and sounds. Doesn’t seem like this band knows what its voice is. Some of it works better than other parts, but on whole, it loses me. Need a sense of mood or sonic theme for an album and this one lacks either. A miss for me.

Lowkey fragmented.

Pretty average in all respects.

Didn’t really like this one. We are wasting slots

4/10… dance punk / brit indie

As a 17 year old in the uk when this was released, I feel like I was the target audience for this. I distinctly remember this band being the ultimate industry hype band. They were one of the bands that gave rise to the term - landfill indie. It was exciting hearing guitar bands when I was a teenager but it was all going downhill at this point

Ikke dårligt, men heller ikke meget mindeværdigt. "Isle of Her" kunne noget og "Gravity's Rainbow" var også lidt fængende.

This was hit-or-miss for me, a couple pretty strong tracks but a lot that were fairly forgettable.

Blah

Highlight: Two Receivers In a nutshell: E N E R G Y The band must have a lot of pent up creative energy before heading into the recording studio, cos it shows on this album. Kinda early Arctic Monkeys tried indie synth pop. Overall: 4/10

Album 879 of 1089 Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future (2007) Rating : 2.5 / 5 Pleasant enough to the ear, but it didn’t stir much in the way of musical feeling for me. The overall tone of their songs was fine, but none of them really stood out or stuck with me. It just felt like another “meh” listen—nothing offensive, nothing awful, but nothing that made me want to hit play again.

sounds like the opening act at every concert I went to in 2014

this shit sounded like a Jared Leto Joker theme song

Just feels like they weren't in the mood to write songs most of the album. When they wrote songs, I didn't hate it. So much a product of its time though that it is definitely pretty grating nowadays Fav song: Gravity's Rainbow

I was skeptical on this, It looks like the Millennial Mop Hair rock I steered away from when I was the target Market (25 years old when this came out) I Enjoyed the first track, didn't go much on the second, the third - Golden Skans I have obviously avoided until now (even with its listen count) it wasn't bad, but somewhat... mid? I probably enjoyed the less listened to songs to be honest.

hirveää

Two great tracks: Golden Skans and a cover of Not Over, some lolcast vibes, Thomas Pynchon and the Mercury prize. All adding up to a brief career and two stars. joining M-People, Gomez, Speech Debelle and many others on the Mercury prize mis-step list.

Rythmic energy, blends together. I don't quite get the lyrics.

The UK bias is real. Whenever I see a band I don’t recognize I know it’s some shitty band the British editor included because he thought they were good. This is Dollar Store MGMT.

Golden Skans was everywhere when this album dropped. Not really my type of music at the time. Decent enough album. High 2s.

A couple catchy tracks but overall forgettable. Forgotten Works is the stand out song but it’s buried towards the end of the record. It’s fine but there’s better versions of this sound out there.

How does this make a list of must hear albums? It is below average mid 2000s British Indie rock. When people ask me what kind of music I like, I typically say pretty much everything. This list made me realize I am a fucking liar. I think I hate most music, that's at least how this album makes me feel. 3.5/10 139/1001

Some kind of British pop-electric-prog-dance thing. Nothing too special.

...how is this any different (or better) than the same sound that had already been out for a couple years? Bloc Party (2005), The Bravery (2005), etc. I don't really see why this makes the list. That said, it's ok noughties indie rock. Neither great nor poor. If I had any connection to it at all, I'd probably score it higher. As it stands, I'm underwhelmed.

There’s decent rhythm somewhere in all this noise. This was an overall unpleasant experience, and the random screaming that happens throughout really doesn’t help matters.

Okay.

1er album de la liste écouté le 05.08.2025. Rock indépendant britannique. Musique passe-partout qui n aura pas su me toucher ou m'emporter. 1 ou 2 morceaux sympss, 1 autre connu (Golden skans)

Was skeptical based on the crappy album art, the music was as advertised

Not really my type of music. But there was one song I kind of liked.

Rock alternativo, no he sentido mucha atracción hacia él aunque se aprecia calidad. 5/10

Not for me. Felt like it went on forever

Only one good song on this album

Sounds like hipster music.

Kind of annoying in the end.

Listened a while ago and I honestly remember nothing from it so it gets 2

Not for me.

I didn't hate this, but I didn't like it either. It's not list worthy.

Con temas como Golden Skans, Two Receivers, Atlantis To Interzone, Gravity’s Rainbow, y sobre todas Magick apañaron un disco que llamó la atención, al menos durante un tiempo. El problema es que en 2007 se publicaron discos como Neon Bible, In Rainbows, Back To Black, Person Pitch/Strawberry Jam, Sound of silver, Untrue, Kala, Ga ga ga ga ga, Boxer, Favourite worts nightmare, Lady´s brigde, Drums and guns, An end has a start, Myth Takes, Vincing The Night Away, 100 Days 100 Nights, Hvarf-Heim, Lust lust lust, White chalk e incluso Sky blue sky, Cease To Begin, Chrome dreams II, Our Love to Admire, Beyond, Era Vulgaris, Yours Truly Angry Mob, The reminder, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

Zzzz

Pretty generic mid-'00's pop alternative rock. Sounds super processed and contains a lot of the kitschy wail/woo noises that were all the rage back then. I feel like this would have been a track on Guitar Hero. Otherwise pretty forgettable. Also, the recording quality seems really bad. Or, maybe that's part of the schtick?

I think the album cover is a good representation of this album. It's an odd collage of disparate pieces that don't form a cohesive whole (at least to me). It might be someone's jam, but it's not mine.

Soulless, ordinary, forgettable, inessential; music made for commercials. At times I'd have preferred to be listening to an actual klaxon. Honestly, this list some days.

no me viene gustando eh alguna que otra canción

the moment when I stopped listening - the moment when I forgot

I don’t mind this. I was at the height of a couple years long lost weekend when this came out, and might have dug it at a certain point in the evening in my favorite hipster scum dive bar, between American Spirit yellows and half priced double Long Islands. But it ain’t mgmt, or mia, both of whom do this sort of indie sleaze thing more enjoyably, and themselves aren’t ever consistently great. Close to three stars because it’s tuneful and grooves and doesn’t take itself seriously. But I’ll never revisit it, or that time in my life, so two.

Golden Skans is a great song I like the cover of Not Over Yet But a lot of this is pretty weak sauce. It tries to fuse rock and indie and dance and ends up excelling at none of them A lot of that has to do with the incredibly weak vocals. A more powerful vocalist might have unlocked some of these songs

Konesoundit alussa ihan hyviäkin. Brittiaksentti ja sateinen päivä alkoi tympiä liikaa kuitenkin.

Oh wat? Eerste reactie is "god weer een gitaarbandje", maar dit rockt echt behoorlijk hard! Ze noemen het zelf new-rave, met invloeden uit de dancewereld. Ik snap wel een beetje wat ze daar mee bedoelen, het is allemaal een stuk sneller en dansbaarder dan standaard rock. De eerste 2 nummers vind ik echt tof, maar de muziek die daarna komt verzand toch weer een beetje in standaard rock, met hier en daar echte noise. OH MIJN GOD, Not Over Yet, dit is echt de aller aller aller allerslechtste cover die ik OOIT heb gehoord! Iedereen die dit goed vind, doe normaal en doe jezelf een plezier: Luister de versie van Grace, dit is namelijk de superieure versie in elke manier. He gadverdamme, ik dacht oprecht eindelijk weer eens aan 3 sterren want het klonk gewoon prima. Maar deze cover is zo fucking dramatisch dat ik niet anders kan dan 2 sterren geven. FUCK. Schaam je. FAVO: Atlantis to interzone, Gravity's rainbow

Just ok. Pretty unremarkable. Every song sounded the same, and it got pretty exhausting after a while.

Klaxons is a good name for this band because they do seem to love random unpleasant noises and, much like their namesake, they’re not very enjoyable to listen to. I’m also knocking a point off for that 15 minutes of silence and then shit hidden track called “Untitled” stunt. That gimic has aged like fine milk in the age of Spotify.

Pretty lame but not the worst

Atlantis to Interzone on FIFA-biisi, josta en koskaan suoranaisesti pitänyt, mutta jonka muistin melkein välittömästi. Kuvastaa levyä kokonaisuudessaan: jokseenkin rytmitön, usein ärsyttävällä tavalla kromaattinen, mutta paikoin yritteliäs ja melodisesti vetävä. Matala 2.

Boring but not terrible. Nothing unpleasant just nothing memorable

Jesus. The Mercury Music Prize has a lot to answer for. Apropos of nothing: the evenings and weekend tariff was a game changer. iykyk :)

A distant memory of the indie electronic takeover of the late 2000s. It aged… ok.

Well, this was OK. I thought the music was all rather busy and I didn't really get why this album is considered a great one.

Fitting name with how noisy it was. It wasn't really my thing.

Not bad but nothing that special. Songs mediocre. Good production, loud mid-2000's style, highly compressed. Good drum sounds. Aggressive sounds.

eh

Bland and boring indie rock Best Song: .... Gravity;s Rainbow Rating: 4.5/10 Stars: 2/5

wasn't a fan but at least it was interesting at times

So. Much. Compression. I feel this album has the sound of trying to sound "disturbed", "dark" etc. without really succeeding. I'm not a big fan of that. Even when songs had ideas I appreciated briefly they turned it into something I disliked. Still, I've heard worse. 2/5

vuonna ruuvvi ja naula kuulin atlantis to interzone crystal castles remixin juutuubissa ja pyörryin siihen paikkaan.. incredible sounds for 5 year old.. ambulanssi soinnut weeeooeeeoooweeeeooeeooo. ja basso duumbdum dum dum dum dum dam dam dam.. ja vesi lirputus teknoversio ja hertzit nousee blul blu blu blublupliplipliplpilp. tosiaan originaali versio on aivan helvetisti paskempi ei siinä, se vaan piti sanoa tähän väliin. pikku kommenttia tähän väliin jos saisi tehdä, sallitaanko... niin ja aika huono albumi, odotin tosiaan vähän parempaa mutta en sitä saanut ja pettymys on karvasta joulukinkkua, eli sinappista. atlantis to interzone

Pretty underwhelming effort. I should like this but it just didn't click for me.

Seemed just okay.

This was decent. I had this album back in the day because I was obsessed with Arctic Monkeys and this came recommended for fans of AM. Just like then, I didn't find anything here that blew me away but it's solid.

Didn’t make it past song 4. Can hear the 00’s alt/indie rock influence in there but not used effectively to my taste.

2.5 I wanted to like this but nothing really stood out. Didnt notice any hooks (memorable ones anyway) in the songs.

It feels like Ok Go describing their dungeons and dragons game through song.

Recorded horribly. Music is meh.

A few really strong songs here and there. The rest blend together and don't grab one's attention.

this has no reason to be on the list, and if I hear another album with a hidden track behind 15 mins of silence I might freak

Meh

I've never heard of Klaxons before, but after listening to 10cc's Sheet Music yesterday, this album cover is giving me some really off-putting vibes. I'll do my best to give this album a fair shot, but I'm going to come unglued if this is another crummy and weird pop album. I don't think it would be fair to call this album crummy, but it was certainly underwhelming and not really my jam. This album started off pretty strong, with "Two Receivers," which happened to be my favorite song on the album. I really enjoyed the energy and the piano on this leadoff track. There were some other little sound elements that were great too, and this was easily the most unique song on the album. But from there, this album lost me. For an electronic and dance album, Myths of the Near Future was really lacking when it comes to catchy hooks or memorable melodies. This album had some good energy, but the overall sound of it kind of felt like the band was throwing things at the wall to see what would stick, and sadly, nothing really did. "Golden Skans" and "Totem On The Timeline" were okay, but they were ultimately forgettable once I was done listening to them. This album had some promise from the leadoff track, but the payoff never came.

"Myths of the Near Future" is loud. And noisy. Yet it does have a few hooks and shows some aspects of decent song writing. I will give them credit for their ability to generate energy and movement in a somewhat sonically coherent landscape, but at the end of the day, this comes across as bad video game music based on Klaxons' favourite literature. I found this to be unengaging and, at times, quite irritating. My disinterest was so deep that it made me long for the disappointing Franz Ferdinand album I reviewed a few weeks ago, which, in comparison, feels superior to this album. For something much more enjoyable in this genre, try Of Montreal (or even Bloc Party). (Better than a 1, but not quite a 2... rounding up.)

Too grating for me, especially last night. Didn't hate it, but it really did feel like a chore.

Not bad, but not for me.

Kind of a shit ass era for music

Cementing that mid-to-late 00s indie is just not my vibe. Didn't like it then, don't like it now. Zzz. No surprise at all this has since been removed from the list. I also feel like the mixing on this is really weird. I struggle to pick out vocals and the guitar frequency physically hurt me at points.

Pass.

Not really my thing but I liked: Atlantis To Interzone Gravity's Rainbow - like the drumming and keyboard in this

Every song sounds the same.

ruin

Ok but not memorable

Golden Skans and It's Not Over Yet stuck out as particularly good. Looking at Spotify stats, they are the most listened to so that makes sense. Rest were meh to annoyingly repetitive.

I hate English people.

I'm like 0/eleventy on liking Indie Rock bands from England in the Aughts on this list. Just not my thing. 2/5

Meh, this was middling at best. If I weren't cleaning the kitchen while listening I would have been fast forwarding through a lot of it.

This wasn’t too bad. I’m close to 900 albums into my list and at this point, I bristle quite a bit when I see “English” and “Dance” next to each other in a description. So, I can say I was please when this turned out to be more dance-y and rock than electronic rock, which is what I expected.

A weird brit pop synth heavy album that no one really asked for or needed. Although some people seem to like it. A couple of nice moments in some songs but not going back to listening to much of it any time soon.

Nicht alles schlecht. Einige Titel klingen frisch und unverbraucht, manches nur schräg. Ok, aber nichts für die Dauerschleife.

1.5*

I didn’t make it all the way through maybe just wasn’t feeling it? Nothing really stood out to me for some reason?

Niet origineel, deze andere bands bovendien beter

Sok

Some tracks were interesting. Nothing that caught the eye tho

Name one good British band. Pro tip: You can't.

2.75

Listened Before? N This one is another big hearty MEH from me. I just don't see what stands out about a lot of these early-mid 2000s british pop/dance records. I think you had to be there. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Golden Skans

Generic indie rock trying to blend their sound with dance music. Except other bands do it better. It’s ok but not a must listen before you die.

Not a fan. Over produced, over-loud and r-r-repetitive. Golden skans is alright, and the idea of indie-rock/dance crossover they're going for sounds appealing in theory but I'm not sure this is it. Second-best track is a cover version that's not as good as the original. Landfill indie. Sorry.

This album won the Mercury Prize? Seriously? At its best, it sounds a bit like Peter Gabriel's music from the 80's. "Gravity's Rainbow" is good, but I didn't much care for the other songs.

Why? 2/5

I kinda go between finding this funky and interesting and just chaotic and stressful. From two listens though, I've consistently been waiting for it to end. I really think they struggled to predict what would stick in these later editions. This one is rather forgettable and long since forgotten.

It’s okay, I guess - for some people. I got stressed out from listening to this. It’s all over the place.

Thoughts before listening: Feels like this will be mid-00s era UK indie rock. I'm sure it will be decent but not on of the 1,001 best albums if all time. Review: This is fine. Reminiscent of other alt rock albums from this era but maybe with some more dancey elements mixed in. I guess it's a solid representation of 00s era alt rock radio music, but it's not hitting for me the way bands like Franz Ferdinand or the Strokes do. I added their biggest hit to my playlist and feel like this is 2-stars.

Two good songs does not a good album make. Golden Skans is great, as is It's Not Over Yet - but it is a cover. The rest is a blur of dated indie rock.

Niet slecht, staan wat aardige nummers op. Maar springt geen enkel nummer echt uit. Geen interesse verder in de band. **1/2 naar beneden afgerond.

this one can stay in 2007

Interesting album. Lots going on. Not my thing though.

As performance art, it’s pretty good…as music it’s not good.

Not bad, 2 singles stand out.

Meh. Thought I was going to enjoy this more than I did, but it's just so 2007.

Weird, don't think I'm a fan

Meh not my type of music. A little disappointed

It was okay, didn't strike me as anything particularly special though

Boring af

The best song on here is a cover, the second-best song on here sounds just like the cover, and the whole thing seems like they're trying far too hard. Just chill guys.

Everything that’s annoying about this list.

Golden Skans is a copper bottomed banger, the rest of it is far from essential - indeed quite generally dreadful. Especially thier mauling of one of the best trance dance tracks in history. Playback was cut short to go find a nice 12 minute Perfecto version of that rather than carry on listening to these hacks

Song 1, not to my liking. But their hits lie ahead. #2 3,4, not for me. And so on.

carino ma non lo risentirei

Not very interesting. Much better acts in the genre.

I remember hearing The Klaxons when they came out, because seemingly everybody in my school wouldn’t shut up about indie rock. I remember thinking they were awful at the time. Listening today, I wasn’t entirely correct: Golden Skans and It’s Not Over Yet are decent. Otherwise I was right though. This album was a slog. This “indie band” released an album on Polydor Records (a subsidiary of Universal) and lost all the heart of what makes good indie music. Who’d have thunk it?

Meh I wasn’t a fan of this one. Luckily it wasn’t a long album.

Total Mercury Prize-core. I wish the guys behind this book didn't rely so much on those awards to choose their entries.

A flavour of the moment that quickly faded into oblivion. How is this important in music history?

It's fascinating to think this band had a moment of glory somewhere in 2007.

From being offered a trip to space as incentive to sign with a label and marrying Kiera Knighly in 2007-10 to only one of the former band members having a Wikipedia page in 2024 perfectly encapsulates how the British music press overhypes anything even remotely popular with a glimmer of next-big-thing potential. Look, British music press, you guys had the Beatles. You’re not going to get another one of those. You need to stop acting like the next one is just around the corner. It’s been 65 years. Surely people are going to stop falling for it eventually. I guess for a Brit, living in London is like being a celebrity, and so if a band has 40 people in the audience - but they’re 40 Londoners, I.e., the coolest, most influential people on the planet - then it must seem like the event of the century. But it’s not. You just live in a dumb country. As for this band, they’re fine. A little Bloc Party, a little Franz Ferdinand, a few decent songs. Nothing special whatsoever and no reason to hear before you die. Throw them on the pile of this-is-the-most-important-band-ever-I-swear-I-mean-it-this-times put forth by the British music press every eight weeks and forgotten six months later.

Never heard of these guys before, so was very curious to get into it. Unfortunately, it didn't really work at all. It was a brief album, excluding the strange 10+ minute gap of silence to fit in the underwhelming secret track on the last song... it just didn't hook me at all, and I found it a tad dull.

Non merci

Sounds a lot like a lot of other early 2000s indie/dance rock like the killers and other bands with “the” in the name. Not too much stuck out to me beyond what those bands did but o guess this one is English so they probably have three other albums on this list.

Groupe inconnu. Son et lignes de basse intéressants. Gravity's Rainbow+ Autres morceaux moyens, voire désagréable (Atlantis... bruit de Klaxon justement ?). Et le morceau caché ... devrait le rester. 2/5

Sometimes reminds me on "Franz Ferdinand" with additional elements of rave- or electronic music or "The Prodigy". But I prefer the original! 🤷‍♂️ Just o.k.

Etäisesti vaikutti halvalta P!atD kopiolta. Yksittäisiä hetki laskematta aikamoista skeidaa eikä mielipide vaihtunut edes toisen päivän kuuntelun jälkeen. Negatiivinen kokemus ehdottomasti.

Tough listen, last track was the best.

Mediocre mid 2000s rock. Nothing to get excited about, and nothing made me want to turn it off. Few tracks were ok but yeah I'll forget this band in week.

Close to giving it a 3, but felt like nearly every song had too much going on at once.

This one was kind of meh. At times I thought it would be fun and entertaining but most of the time it got on my nerves. Very busy and cluttered. They could use a producer who scales them back and focuses them on one idea at a time. Isle of Her was a good example of where they managed to strip things down and layer effectively to a place where it became a great track.

2.5. Great Value The Strokes. Honestly, no reason for them to be on this list. When you can just listen to The Strokes.

Not sure what that was. All made harder my only being available on YouTube. 2???

one hit and very generic oughts-era indie. Why did I need to hear this?

It's noisy.

From the Wiki: Myths of the Near Future received generally favourable reviews from critics, some of whom praised the musicianship, though others were dismissive of the rave tag. So it makes total sense to support the UK generic pop bias when there are plenty of more successful iterations of this type of music that appears nowhere on the list. 2.5/5

To be honest, it was no unrememberable that I didn't even realize that the album was finished for several minutes.

It was really fun and enjoyable

Fair play this has aged horribly.

Very busy and trying much too hard to marry Rock to Dance. The songs are mostly OKish, but there is nothing that would warrant the inclusion in this list. 2.5/5

I probably would have listened to this album in my 20s and enjoyed it . It’s fine but I wouldn’t put it in my top 1000 list

Unremarkable early 2000s UK dance-type rock. Repetitive. Very meh. At least it was short.

nothing new

2 - Only one song on here managed to make me stop and go, "Hey, that's kinda weird". Everything else was boring stereotypical music from the 2000s, which I don't love.

Loved parts, absolutely hated other parts. 2.5/5.

i'm underwhelmed. really nothing to say.

Kept telling myself the next song will be a good one but then the last song came and it never happened. One and done.

Some interesting moments here, but overall couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll give it another try in the future!

Emotions ranged from: good; glad I listened; no way should this be on any list like this; decent; gets annoying fast; this is only he tryre because it did OK overseas; who the fuck uses a semicolon anymore; who ever used a semicolon; sounds auto tuned; these 3 fellas look like Hanson all growed up; I'm not so sure this isn't Hanson; it's fine, just fine. All told, I'll never listen to it again on purpose. And neither should you.

Dance-punk vibes. Some enjoyable moments, but more moments I wasn't so keen on.

A lot of cool concepts in this and interesting sounds, but ultimately not for me.

Ok.

Meh

I admit that I'm not the best fan of their sound 😁

It was hard to focus on the music.

This is a parody, you cannot convince me otherwise. This is not serious, bffr.

Better visually

Meh of the year

4.5/10

Sight unseen and unheard, the band name and the title were pretty cool, so I was curious what I would find... I found occasionally mondo distorted basslines anchoring pop songs that are good on paper, but just...don't...get there. Props to Jamie Reynolds, and his style, but it can't carry blah. "Gravity's Rainbow" is one place when "good on paper" transcends, and Reynolds's fuzz, achieve something pretty great. Other than that, and what could be a Beck mid-nineties fuzz-metal freakout "Four Horsemen of 2012" is my favorite, the rest is, yeah, blah.

Had a bit of groove going but didnt stand out

Didn't like it when it came out. Still think it's a bit lightweight. 2000s sci-fi rock electro indie. It's all a bit wet. 2

Decent 5

Not bad, but just sort of unremarkable. Didn't really evoke any response for some reason.

Not very good, but kind of interesting I guess. I bet Imagine Dragons listened to this and was like 'Hey, we can do that' but lacked any of the talent or imagination of this band. 2.5.

It’s kind of hard to describe this album. I guess it’s really upbeat and noisy dance/punk/pop that is a little catchy at times but always full of energy. It’s not too long which is nice however it didn’t completely hold my attention. I also don’t see how this is essential listening.

It’s certainly not a bad album, but I spent the whole time kind of wondering what was the point of any of the songs. Certainly energetic and well mixed/produced. But there was little for me to latch onto. “Golden Skans” was a good track. I’ve been oscillating between whether to give this 2 or 3 stars. I think given what I’ve already put in the 3 star category, I should knock it down a peg, but I liked it better than anything I’ve given a 2 to… I also regret giving the Kings of Leon album 3 stars (should have been 2), and this album is making me think of that one. Do I punish Klaxons for the sins of Kings of Leon. Yeah, I think I will…

This was okay but at one point I thought it had gone into Arcade Fire. Music for 'thoughtful' blokes. A bit monotonous.

I'm not a fan of mash up albums. Rock, rave, Arthur, Martha etc. I'm too old school to like genres and definitions that aren't inbreds. There's a lot of energy, but not a lot else going off here.

It is indie rock but it is not as insufferable compared to other indie music. Overall it is just kind of there. Wasn't great. Wasn't awful. Probably better than a 2 but not really a 3. I will round down.

It was fine. They are like a less awesome TV on The Radio.

I thought I was digging this and then I changed my mind

Epic battle here between the Zutons and th Klaxons. Just like you're at that Scientology convention you never wanted to go to. Who will win the battle for your soul... In the left corner, we have the Klaxons, hailing from stuffy London and well versed in vanilla flavored new rock with a spritz of harmonium. And, in the right from the dirty and hard-hammered city of Liverpool are the Zutons, ...and thy have a SAXOPHONE! John Travolta will be officiating the match.... [hits play on Klaxons ... falls asleep, wakes up, decides time is better spent making french toast with extra egg and a boatload of syrup. Four Horsemen is still playing and turns off... ]

Hatte vorher nie von den Klaxons gehört, aber "Golden Skans" kannte ich dann doch und das Cover "It's Not Over Yet" von Grace auch! Das ganze Album ist okay, aber irgendwie nicht ganz meins.

I don't know... It has some cool songs and the drums are really nice, and that's It, nothing else. For some reason there is a 15-minute of silence at the end of the album, which I do not understand at all. Maybe the elder ones listened to Rush and Pink Floyd in the 70s and had the same feeling that I had listening to this. It is a 2.5... But I will give It a 2. It was nice try...

A much more recent pick than we've had lately, but I can't say that's helping. This one's decent, but I'm certain there are more deserving albums from 2007. We've actually had a couple, but how about Paramore's Riot? Kanye's Graduation? Icky Thump? I don't think any of those three are on the list, but I'd say they are all more appropriate than this one. I'm calling British bias unfortunately. I will say this is better than that Fishbone album we got a couple days ago, but this is on the chopping block for me. Favorite tracks: Atlantis to Interzone, Magick. Album art: I really like this cover, a great collage of images, adding up to I don't know what. But it's great to look at. 2.5/5

Derivative and boring mid-aught indie rock. Trying hard not to be Franz Ferdinand/the Strokes/Interpol/Etc. and they just become a mush of sounds that don’t work.

4/10. Didn't seem like it was bad, but definitely wasn't my thing either

The first songs were enjoyable, but then it got really stretched across all the genres and got nowhere. 2.5/5.

Had potential after the first track, but it waned from there.

Ehhh did not enjoy.

They occupy the unenviable position of being between Pop and EDM in the early 2000s. And unlike Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, they do not nail it.

This was an interesting album. Haven’t heard of the klaxons before this. All in all it was okay. The new age pop electronic sounds don’t really excite me and this album felt like a cyborg trying to be normal. It’s unique and different. Maybe avant garde but to me it’s not any kind of music I would revisit. 4.5/10

Never has been my music and it never will be.

just not intrested in this

wooooooaoh this was pretty cool. good. i like it.

the vocals feel very weird like they didnt mix it in properly the production of the album is subpar but i like what they tried to do with the concept and some songs like the opener stand out for me

2/5 not anything interesting

I remember listening to this a bit when it was released and I went to see them a couple of times (pretty sure one was a new-rave NME tour with Hadouken and someone else...) I don't remember ever particularly liking it though, think I was just in the habit of listening to indie bands and this was the current marketed indie stuff. Listening to it now, it's not completely awful. The weakest element for me is the vocals: contrived would-be indie disco anthem type stuff and I guess it was for a while. Nothing to excite or inspire though and I think it can stay consigned to the history books. There were some good bands of this time and of the same ilk (CSS, Young Knives) but this is not great. Infinitely better than Hard-Fi, though!

It's the worst combination of rock and electronic music. It's fun for 5 minutes and just it!

Mais um pop com verniz punk, mas sem um grude para virar hit.

new rave is a genre i didn't know existed, but i suppose it didn't last for terribly long. my ignorance can be forgiven. klaxons' myths of the near future was full of dance music and was easy to vibe to. memorable? no. but hey, i do appreciate a theme.

Noisy and eclectic, but listenable. That said, it didn't do anything for me.

Very meh. I remember when this came out and thinking this was incredibly mediocre. My option has not changed.

Nothing to really draw me in, a lot of it feels abrasive in a way they didn’t intend. Idk, it’s another forgettable one for me.

Ehh it definitely got worse as it went on. It kind of went by slowly which is odd considering it was ~half hour. I think it just wanted amazing especially towards the end.

Totally unfamiliar with these guys so let's go... ... eh. jeez I don't know - not connecting early - REALLY not connecting - and especially after/during the 2nd song. Worrisome thought: do I just not like rock music anymore? Or "modern" rock (although this album is now almost 20 years old so what the hell am I even talking about). I don't think that's it <convincing myself of this by writing that, yup> - more that it falls under the Arcade Fire but faux-disco-aggression of Arctic Monkeys annoying group singing and uber-dense production (let the goddamn music breathe already ... guh) - part of that small subgenre of so-called "alt" (meaningless term) rock that I range from not connecting with to outright disliking. And to yet again fall back on my tried and true tiebreaker, these vocals are annoying AF. I honestly think I might actively dislike this one and confident enough in that appraisal that I'm sure another pass won't improve this lot. Also sonically it *sounds* fng AWFUL. Hard pass. 3/10 2 stars.

I did not enjoy this

I listened to this, forgot to review it, then listened to it 2 days later and didn’t realize I had already listened to it until song. Fughettable!

These guys seem to want to rock edgily and be serious (even Pynchonesque, it might be surmised) but come off as mostly neither. For all its seeming urgency and relatively high degree of only-slightly-and-not-terribly-overdone kineticism, the end result is pretty meh and tame, besides being too alt-y for one's tastes. One must admit that this is slightly better (or not quite as terrible) than much of the dreaded '90s ALT tidal wave, probably because ravier and maybe because they at least know who Pynchon and Ballard are. In one of history's unsurprising ironies, though, they all do sound rather normie now, dont' they, all those ALT acts of the '90s and their dance-rock descendants of the '00s. Also, this mercifully shorter than some of those magna opuses. Still, not-being-too-tedious and for being lame for slightly less long feels like less than faint praise, just about what this deserves.

Bit dull really.

Boring. Unremarkable. Ive heard similar things too many times on this list.

Ok

Okay, not special.

Nothing special. The first few songs were fine but the rest of it was blah

Very uniform sound throughout the album

y

Decent enough, repetitious British dance rock. Heavy baselines, spluttered lyrics. A couple of songs are strong, the rest is not memorable. Sounds a lot like they borrowed heavily from Bloc Party and Arctic Monkeys. Not sure this was important enough to go on the list.

This wasn't bad at all, I got some TV on the radio and Yeah Yeah Yeahs vibes and sure enough the Spotify algorithm played those two bands after this was done. I definitely don't think this album was "essential" though. By having 1,001 albums I think Dimery is stretching it a bit.

Jesus Christ people, just listen to The Fall.

The songs probably arent bad themselves, but this production makes listening to this unbearable.

Salvo Golden Skans, el resto del disco no me pareció memorable

Decent indie rock, but not exceptional

Inte katastrof men samtidigt inte särskilt spännande.

Well, this certainly falls much closer to my preferred style of Indie rock than many others. This really is not at all what I expected going in. Unfortunately, the other line at play is the Mendoza line between being weird for the sake of being weird and being weird to be genuinely interesting. A lot of this feels like the former to me. There are many rogue noises in the instrumentation and vocals that don't do anything for me.

Naff indie

I'm in a terrible mood today and this did not help.

Vaguely catchy, hum-drum indie dance with the odd wobbly keyboard chucked in to make it "interesting". Was the author of 1001 Albums... a FIFA fan? This is the second time - at least - that I've encountered music from the game soundtrack.

I definitely listened to this and I definitely do not remember much about it. 2006 is right around the time I stopped listening to indie rock because too much of what I was tuned into felt uneventful and uninspired. I don’t necessarily think this album fell victim to the “write songs for iPod commercials” trap that a lot of similar sounding bands got seemingly caught up in, but it surely doesn’t bring anything particularly new to the table either. Is anyone still talking about this band in 2023? Never even heard of ‘em before today.

Ein an der Unerträglichkeit entlangschrammender Unfall. It’s Not Over Yet heißt der zehnte Song, und das war ein guter Grund, kopfschüttelnd und ratlos auszumachen.

It's not terrible but this isn't required listening. A bit unfocused and frenetic for it to elevate the material. I never heard of these guys before and I don't think I need to hear them again.

Seems pretty decent. Need to hear more... 2.5

The singles avoid it being a 1, garbage. I saw them live before they launched the album and being heavily hyped, and didn't think much of them back then - hasn't aged well at all, just a band with few ideas

Some toe tappers here but a smug front man and sixth form poetry renders Klaxons try hards. The rave infused indie doesn't quite work and the It's Not Over Yet cover is an attempt to be smart and distinctive but makes you want to hear the original, which wasn't that great in the first place.

I mean there were a few parts that were kinda cool, but for some reason the album came off as just mediocre and boring most of the time. A bit reminiscent of King Gizzard at times Also that second track was so stupid the way it starts with those dumb old Yahama keyboard preset noises lmao

Started really strong but fell off hard and Isle of Her almost made me cut this 36-minute album off early. It's kind of like you took that early 2000s indie rock sound but then washed it until the aesthetic faded away. The lyrics are total nonsense. Yes I know the one song is named Gravity's Rainbow but you can't just name a song after a book and have the song be about the book.

I just wasn't that big a fan of the album. Didn't find anything too catchy and was almost too experimental for me. Sounds like Two Door Cinema Club but worse. 5/10.

It’s kind of hard to describe this album. I guess it’s really upbeat and noisy dance/punk/pop that is a little catchy at times but always full of energy. It’s not too long which is nice however it didn’t completely hold my attention. I also don’t see how this is essential listening.

Indie that isn’t for me

Sounds like an inferior version of a lot of the music that was popular at the time of this album's release.

This was fine, nothing to write home about. The post brit pop style has poduced some absolute bangers and some trash and this neither. Golden skans is quite good but the rest is just fine. If employment is not on this and this album then I would demote this. But as it stands it would be a 2.5 but no halfs allowed

Guessing that an edition of the '1001 albums...' book was published around 2008, as this 'new rave' dance indie rock was all the rage for about 5 minutes at around that time. 15 years later, it's not difficult to see why it was a passing fad. Whilst this album has its moments, and the form fits the dystopian concept, it quite quickly all becomes a bit samey. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Golden Skans Date listened: 07/05/23

Hadn't heard of this band or heard any of their music that I can recall. Some good tracks on this album. Don't feel compelled to come back to them -- nothing wrong with what I heard when I listened to it, just didn't grab me in a way that makes me want to listen to this again or explore their other music.

interesting but not impressive. Maybe another 15 years in the vault will do it some good though.

Man the 00s really were a time where music was doing too much.

kinda uninspired for something that came out in '07 indie rock 2.5

Not unpleasant, just average. Nothing special. I'll never play it again and probably wouldn't recognise it if I heard it again.

Atlantis To Interzone still sounds great (rave) but unfortunately stands out on a rather unremarkable album (no rave). Bought this album in 2007 or so, after hearing the Soulwax remix of Gravity's Rainbow, and felt rather disappointed when listening to the flat original.

Hadn't heard it before and turns out that was actually a fine state of affairs. The songs are repetitious both internally within each song and all together song to song. None of the tracks evoked either emotion or motion in me. I could feel Gravity's Rainbow trying to have some energy towards the end of the song but then Forgotten Works smothered that momentum straight away. One of the longer 36 minutes I've spent on this project. Straight mediocre 2.5.

This was more interesting than I expected but that style of music has already grated on me and the vocals are terrible. There's just enough interesting hooks and composition to make it worth persevering through but I wouldn't say I liked it. Even Not Over Yet isn't as good as the original or several cover versions, though it's a fair attempt at doing something a bit different with it. Probably gets a 2 as most of my 3s are more listenable.

weird but entertaining. 2 stars.

Mit "Myths of the Near Future" lieferte das Londoner Trio um Jamie Reynolds, James Righton und Simon Taylor 2007 den Gründungstext einer kurzlebigen, aber prägenden Bewegung: New Rave. Aufgenommen in den Premises Studios und den Parkgate Studios, abgemischt in den Strongrooms, erschien das Debüt bei Polydor und verband kantige Post-Punk-Gitarren mit den Nachhall-Effekten früher Neunziger-Rave-Kultur – ein Sound, der so hyperaktiv wie kalkuliert wirkte. Songs wie "Golden Skans", "Atlantis to Interzone" und "It's Not Over Yet" tragen das Album mit einer Dringlichkeit, die selten in Berechnung umschlägt. James Fords Produktion hält die Balance zwischen Chaos und Kontrolle; die Referenzen an Ballard, Burroughs und Pynchon geben dem Ganzen einen literarischen Überbau, der dem Party-Impuls der Musik nie im Weg steht. Im Rückblick wirkt das Album wie ein Zeitkapsel-Dokument seiner Szene – schrill, manchmal überdreht, aber mit einer Energie, die auch fast zwei Jahrzehnte später kaum verpufft ist. Der Mercury Prize 2007 war kein Zufallstreffer, sondern eine folgerichtige Anerkennung seiner Eigenständigkeit. Ein Album, das seine Gegenwart lauter feierte, als es die Zukunft ahnen ließ.

Another attempt to push really bad British Bands as if they’re still remotely relevant. This album wasn’t available on Apple Music (that’s a red flag) so I was obliged to listen on YouTube and the best parts of the album were the Ads on YouTube. What a POS this album is.

Generic Indy

Painful, new to me and as unlistenable as anything I’ve ever heard. One star. Tom.

Not really my thing. It had moments, but overall, not for me

When will I get a good album again? Not today 1

Good grief no. Weirdly hailed as some kind of "saviour of rock" for a generation that came marginally after The Strokes etc. when it was just a less good version with an electro hint. Stop it Robert, you're being silly.

Boring, dated, nothing new or interesting here. So, so dated.

NICE another album that isn't old enough to drink. I can't wait to try and understand why the critics think this should be here. Ok, while I don't find this as brazenly offensive to listen to as some things I've discovered here, I find it brazenly offensive that this got included in this project: 1. It's britpop (sigh.... again) 2. It's juvenile 3. It's rave-oriented, therefore it's deliberately obtuse 4. It's since been stricken from the publication, affirming my conclusion that it has no business in this compilation. Zero stars on merit.

Gone and already forgotten

lol what is this doing here

That’s what you get when you order The Wombats from Teemu.

Crap

Ekstremt 2007 album

I hate the production on this one hit wonder album. I don't even like the one hit wonder song.

Wow! This is just pure noise for the sake of it. Weird distorted drums at the start should have warned me about what was to come. Jangly guitars and space sounds occasionally just irritated. Got to track 8 before I couldn't listen any more. Recognised one hit they had, but the rest was unlistenable.

I think the person who runs this website gets paid to market some of this music. This is awful and doesn't deserve to be anywhere near this list

Bof

I can enjoy the most "unlistenable" hardcore, thrash, etc. but if your shit has a rave siren in it I am out. Fuck this.

That’s an eye opener. I bought this when it was released on the back of the singles. So I played it and I had no recollection of hearing any of the tracks apart from the singles. Forgettable is an understatement

"its sound recalled the dance-punk works of Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand" oh good music inspired by the worst bands of 5 years earlier this is still a review of a terrible band, not Thomas Pynchon the writer: Thomas Pynchon's novels are sometimes quite moving, buried under a pile of juvenile humour & fixations. the technical slant is the staggering overconfidence of a 20 year old engineering student in a whole lot of nothing. to name a song after a famous Pynchon novel is the reddest of flags. 1 star. wretched.

I’m imagining my young self hearing this and liking it, and then I’m imagining going back in time and beating up my young self

third rate landfill indie made even worse by adding some rave stylings. rotten. even worse than Kasabian. in no way is this an album that ANYONE needs to hear, at all. I grudge giving it one star.