Feeling Kopped Out
So. Klaxons released Golden Skans today. Good song, good song, we like it, sure enough. However, and as much as we bum Klaxons we're not completely besotted so we know when we're being had. I mean, three formats, £5 if you buy all at once, let's see what we get;
Golden Skans, twice
Golden Skans, the Alkan remix (which doesn't appeal to us that much but we know it's well popular innit)
Golden Skans, live
Atlantis To Interzone, live
The Bouncer, live
Now, we asked around, checked our lists and checked them twice. Is this the single least interesting collection of singles ever? Now, don't get us wrong, we've got lots of duff singles collections - rarely by bands as good as Klaxons admittedly but, there are a lot of them - but at least you don't know how duff it is before you buy it, at least they have b-sides that you can ponder the quality of before realising you could've done without them (hello Fields), at least they have a few different remixes that go in different directions (hello Fields vs SebastiAn). This all smacks of a well orchestrated marketing ploy by men in suits. Barely the work of a cutting edge group of talented and fan oriented musicians, which, to our mind, is what the Klaxons are.
It doesn't feature the video, the remix is a popular one but sounds just like the original, which, added to the other two versions of the original (which is fair enough for a single, I guess), leaves just two live b-sides of songs their fans already had. Very much not a package for The Faithful or, particularly, a package that would've taken much effort.
Shame.
Golden Skans, twice
Golden Skans, the Alkan remix (which doesn't appeal to us that much but we know it's well popular innit)
Golden Skans, live
Atlantis To Interzone, live
The Bouncer, live
Now, we asked around, checked our lists and checked them twice. Is this the single least interesting collection of singles ever? Now, don't get us wrong, we've got lots of duff singles collections - rarely by bands as good as Klaxons admittedly but, there are a lot of them - but at least you don't know how duff it is before you buy it, at least they have b-sides that you can ponder the quality of before realising you could've done without them (hello Fields), at least they have a few different remixes that go in different directions (hello Fields vs SebastiAn). This all smacks of a well orchestrated marketing ploy by men in suits. Barely the work of a cutting edge group of talented and fan oriented musicians, which, to our mind, is what the Klaxons are.
It doesn't feature the video, the remix is a popular one but sounds just like the original, which, added to the other two versions of the original (which is fair enough for a single, I guess), leaves just two live b-sides of songs their fans already had. Very much not a package for The Faithful or, particularly, a package that would've taken much effort.
Shame.