Pitchfork

The video for "Golden Skans"-- Klaxons' January 22 single from the forthcoming Myths of the Near Future LP-- is the band's best video yet, due in no small part to the fact that they now seem to have a budget.

Like a human version of the awesome video for Vitalic's "Poney Part 1", a good portion of the clip is spent with the band floating in the air wrapped in colored ribbons. But it also includes sweet shots of the band roaring up from a body of water and using thin rods to slice through big cylinders with liquid inside.

Right, so it doesn't make any sense, but director Saam Farahmand-- responsible for Klaxons' excellent "Magick" video as well as the cleverly edited Bush and Blair video set to Electric Six's "Gay Bar" and who has one of the most awesome websites we've seen-- makes it all look fantastic.

Polydor will release Myths of the Near Future in the UK on January 29, and Klaxons have plenty of UK tour dates to keep them busy before then and afterward.

Dates:

12-14 Bath, England - Moles
12-15 Bedford, England - Esquires
12-16 London, England - SeOne (Christmas Catastrophee) (early show)
12-16 London, England - SeOne (Christmas Catastrophee) (late show)
12-31 London, England - TBA (DJ set)
01-27 London, England - Turnmills (DJ set)
02-03 Dublin, Ireland - Ambassador
02-04 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Mandela Hall
02-06 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
02-07 Leeds, England - Leeds Metropolitan University
02-08 Newcastle, England - Newcastle University
02-11 Cardiff, Wales - Solus
02-12 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
02-13 Oxford, England - Oxford Brookes University
02-14 Bristol, England - Anson Rooms
02-16 Liverpool, England - Academy
02-17 Manchester, England - Academy 1
02-18 Sheffield, England - Plug
02-20 Portsmouth, England - Pyramids
02-21 Cambridge, England - Junction
02-22 London, England - Hammersmith Palais