k-punk

I dunno, reading these quotes from the Klaxons, you can’t help but think: if anyone ever wanted to make a Spinal Tap-type movie about Indie Dance…. To be fair, I haven’t heard the album, but what I have heard puts me in mind of beery bargain basement chancers like EMF and Jesus Jones…
And how tired is this: ‘All the dance bands relied on electronic programming and drum machines. We wanted to take that and give it a human element.’ Because, naturally, what rave was deficient in was ‘organic’ and ‘human’ elements. Pointless rhetorical questions… Just why is it that indie bands think that transforming rave/ hip hop/ house/ r and b into plodding pub rock bluster is either necessary or interesting? Why is it unimaginable that they would say ‘we want to remove the vestigial human components and make a sound even more abstract, impersonal and strange….’?