Klaxons, Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Touring their third album, 'Love Frequency', the Klaxons tour London at Shepherd's Bush Empire

Klaxons were at the vanguard of that brief, neon-hued phenomenon, 'Nu-Rave’ of the mid-00s, winning a Mercury for their debut album Myths of the Near Future. They outlived their new-raving contemporaries and grew up a bit. Weddings, not raves, are the mainstay of Klaxons 2014: banished are the drugs that fueled their mid-noughties perma-party and the keyboardist is married to Keira Knightley.

Now the boys are back, older and wiser. The  Klaxons Love Frequency  tour hits London.  The band’s latest record has been tipped as a return to form. After experimenting with the ‘less pop and more rock’ effort Surfing the Void in 2010, inspired by an ayahuasca hallucination, they’ve gone back to their roots and made an “out and out dance” record. Says Reynolds, 'We wanted to put ourselves back into the pop spectrum. We’ve always been a pop group and this time we're embracing that.'

Love Frequency marries a combination of falsetto vocals, relaxed rave synth, New York City RnB vibes, British synth pop and ‘90s house music.

The LP was self-produced, with the help of a pantheon of electro heavyweights: Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, up and coming production duo Gorgon City, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and superstar DJ Erol Alkan.

Lead single 'There Is No Other Time' put the band back on the map earlier this year after four years away from the charts. Bound to be marked a future club classic, it’s all catchy loop melodies, 90s beats and modern production.

Known for their upbeat live sets (designed to be a party on stage, says frontman Jamie Reynolds), their show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on November 4 is guaranteed to be a fun night.