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• This song is based on J.G Ballard's book Myths Of The Near Future. >>

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  Evvo - Manchester, England
• In 2007, Myths Of The New Future won The Mercury Prize for the best British or Irish album of the year. The judges said of the album: "Rock meets pop meets dance, the Klaxons take us on an ecstatic musical adventure." >>

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  Bertrand - Paris, France
• Jamie Reynolds (vocals/bass) was asked by the New Musical Express December 15, 2007 what he remembered about making "Golden Skans." He replied: "I remember the writing process more. We recorded it twice and did a demo of it and we realized we had to slow it down, but the writing sticks out more than anything. I remember thinking it was very clever of Madonna to steal from Abba, so I decided to steal the thing that she'd stolen from Abba from Madonna. I don't know if anyone's ever noticed but it's basically "Hung Up" by Madonna. "Golden Skans" is that song." Reynolds was then asked if he felt "Golden Skans" has taken on a life of its own. He replied: "Absolutely. You know the difference between recording a song and listening to it is completely different? I remember taking it back to my very small bedroom in New Cross and putting it on my CD player. I realized that we had a tune on our hands. Everything else had been noise up until that point, but now we actually had a pop song."
• Myths Of The Near Future was named after a short story collection by science fiction writer JG Ballard.
• In the same NME interview, James Righton (Co-vocals and keyboards) was asked how long it took to record the album. He replied: "From the day we began about two years ago, we pretty much started work on the album. In that first week of us getting together and playing, we'd written "Atlantic To Interzone," "Four Horsemen Of 2012," "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Golden Skans." Within that first week we'd spent every hour of the day together, going out together, going down the chip shop together. In the rehearsal studios, spending all the nights just playing and writing. It was always our intention to do things fast, we didn't want to have that couple of years incubation period that most bands have. In that same week had the title; we knew it had to be called Myths Of The Near Future. One of the ideas we had was to make it into a trilogy, although I think that's now unlikely. Once we'd figured out what we wanted to be, the rest of it came quite naturally and easily."