I don’t visit the NME’s website very often, on account of their huge font size, which they use as a tactic to hide a lack of content. Instead I read this news via Pitchfork: Klaxons have been sent back to the studio after receiving a bollocking from their record company Universal, which asked them to re-record part of their new album. Apparently it was becoming a “really dense, psychedelic record” and they’re actually “a pop band.”
Well I have news for Klaxons, you’re not a pop band, you’re a workhorse producing material for your paymasters rather than the music you feel inclined to make. That’s right: bands shouldn’t make music for their record company, or indeed their fans, they should make it for themselves. If it’s any good, they’ll find an audience, and if they engage with that audience they’ll become fans who will follow them on their musical journey regardless of the directions they take.
