Pitchfork

Klaxons' pretense is far more interesting than they're letting on with "Gravity's Rainbow", their first U.S. single after a run of UK hype. Repping for KLF (who repped for Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson [who repped for Thomas Pynchon]), these Burroughs-named Londoners rocketed to relative fame via NME's specious tag as the "new rave." If you try, you might hear the pace and rhythm of the Prodigy's "One Love", but mostly the song's just hypertensive Bloc Party with forlorn lyrics giving this modern love a half-life of infinity. Drums hurtle, guitars thrust, voices soar, etc. Something about a "Madcap Medusa" and a "rubix groom hoom" too. Not a bad plan to drop New Order in favor of retro-futurism, I'm just not sure it needs its own genre just yet.