NEWS: Klaxons Release EP Of Album Outtakes

Klaxons have revealed that they intend to release an EP made up of the outtakes from their last album.

The band, whose second album 'Surfing The Void' is released on August 23, have a variety of songs for the record which did not ultimately make the cut. Bassist Jamie Reynolds mentioned that the outtakes were far slower than the rest of the songs that made it onto the forthcoming album. "It's quite slow, there's a waltz on it and it's just great. A seven-minute waltz!" he explained. "We've taken tracks and taken all the music out and replaced it with drones – it's very drudgy and slow and beautiful and odd."

However, Klaxons now intend to release the tracks that did not fit the final album on their own at some point saying "It sounds folky, it's not a record for a start it's an EP, which will see the light of day at some point," James Righton confirmed. "It's a lot more complicated, a lot more considered as well. Lots of layered vocals."

Reynolds also explained the reason why the band conducted the various sessions, before recording the lion's share of the album in California with producer Ross Robinson.

"I think it was just a case of we'd only written 15 songs before [we started writing this album]," he said. "I think we went to perfect our craft, learning to write songs, figuring out how to write songs and lyrics. It was a time, having only written a small batch, to concentrate on what we were good at and figure that out without any consideration of writing a pop record."

Klaxons are set to play the Reading And Leeds Festivals which take place between August 27 and 29.