If you listen carefully the Klaxons debut album, you can play to find literary references that cont

If you listen carefully the Klaxons debut album, you can play to find literary references that contain their different songs. You can find Crowley in Magick, to Atlantis to Interzone Burroughs or Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow. However, the most obvious reference in the title of the album. "Myths of the Near Future" mesa de centro takes its name from a collection of short stories by James Graham (JG for friends) Ballard. Klaxons collected thus seen other bands, especially in the post-punk, which directly or indirectly inspired the author to conceive when their songs. When taken as a reference pop Ballard has never been like in the Empire of the sun, Spielberg directed film about the memories of childhood in a Japanese-occupied Shanghai. It's three experimental novels he wrote in the mid-70, Crash, Concrete Island and skyscraper, which gave rise to the adjective Ballardian. All three are full of decaying cities, social isolation and information overload, and not far from the dystopias of Clockwork Orange or 1984 Bowie was the first who adapted flesh and eroticism of the novel Crash irons on his album Low , anticipating the excitement of the post-punk by Ballard and his descriptions of soulless industrial cities. Warm Leatherette, mesa de centro The normal (group fleeting Mute Records boss Daniel Miller) was a morbid explicit homage

to Crash mating rituals. Another group was influenced significantly by Ballard Joy Division. One of the songs Closer, Atrocity Exhibition, takes its name from a novel by the author's 69, but Curtis says he wrote the lyrics before the book, of which only took the title. Members of Cabaret Voltaire, Human League, Siouxsie and the Banshees or Ultravox were avowed fans of the author, and even hit Video Killed the Radio Star, Buggles was inspired by one of his short stories. Admiration for Ballard declined significantly throughout the 80s, with the letters slightly resurgent Brett Anderson (Suede) on nuclear heavens or titles like Future Sound of London Dead Cities. What I think the author, and with 76 years, all of this is unclear. Although it might seem by his work, his musical taste is quite soft. However, some of its key concepts have permeated the world of CPOP, one way or another. And is that his books mixed fear and fascination with modernity, leaving us with the suspicion that all our wonderful electronic and mechanical mesa de centro monsters eventually devouring. This text takes another blog which was saying that the text is taken / adapted from an article mesa de centro in The Guardian. Very interesting. In bonus, mesa de centro cd photo. Klaxons - Myths of the near future.
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