I’m probably not the right age or in the right place to really get New Rave; but still, it seems like a remarkably pointless movement. Hadouken range from alright to quite good, I guess, though “Liquid Lives” seems a bit like a poor man’s Audio Bullys.
More baffling are The Klaxons. “From Atlantis to Interzone” starts of like a pleasant enough rave revival, then turns into fucking Franz Ferdinand for no clear reason. Well, the reason becomes a bit clearer on listening to their awful cover of “Not Over Yet,” which appears to be an attempt to produce a dance record for people who don’t like, or perhaps have never heard, dance music. “We loved that song, and wanted to play it on guitars,” they said, apparently. Well, OK, I guess; but why on earth would anyone want to do that?
Anthony Paul Smith at 1:48 am, July 12, 2007
‘Get off my lawn! Damn kids!’
voyou at 1:06 pm, July 13, 2007
Hahaha, yes. I guess that does more or less sum up my post. I was initially more pissed off with the Klaxons, as I’d confused Grace with Strike, who I further wrongly believed were fronted by Gina G. A new-rave version of “Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit” would have lead to some serious curmudgeonlyness.
Anthony Paul Smith at 4:30 pm, July 14, 2007
“Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit”? I totally remember that song at Jr High dances… good God!
This whole new-rave thing is kind of silly as a moniker though, innit? I mean, my friends in Chicago were playing very similar sounding shit about three years ago and it was called electro-clash then. What’s the difference, other than more ironic covers? Isn’t this just the magic of capitalism that turns your basic garage band into ‘new rave’?
smokebelch at 1:45 pm, July 16, 2007
I HATE the whole conceit of hearing a perfectly good pop song and thinking “this will sound soooo much better on guitars.” It won’t.
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