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Single Reviews
Single Review: Klaxons – Twin Flames (Universal/Polydor)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 27 October 2010
And in a flash of neon and bad taste, it was gone. A happy ending to the plastic jewellery sporting, east London plaguing, glowstick touting new rave scene. And, thankfully, Klaxons have also moved on. Their latest single ‘Twin Flames’ shows a far more melodic, airwave-friendly direction to their whiz-bang-pow past, perhaps more representational of the ‘morning after’ than the ‘night before’ of much of their previous oeuvre.
Marching in with skew-whiff, space-age guitars, muted drumbeats and synths, it’s undoubtedly catchy, and follows the psychedelic, shimmering leanings of the rest of their sophomore album. However, ‘Twin Flames’ is a decidedly cyclical offering with no real climax – despite the insistent percussive rhythms and looping chorus.
Hinting at being almost a love song, the lyrics are (hopefully) a wry exercise in self-parody: “Twin flames in our hearts / As we move towards our very start / Twin flames in our minds / When we move emotions multiply”.
The new Barry White they are not (phew); but this catchy slab of melodic and decidedly indie-pysch weirdness marks a more mature, if slightly less exciting direction for the band. EG
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