Golden Skans

Ahead of their long-play debut, Myths Of The Near Future, comes the Londoners’ second major label single. And while ‘Magick’ was a pompous affair which, if it could talk, would have said, “Ooooh, look how kooky and different we are,” they’ve thankfully dropped that façade. ‘Golden Skans’ (what’s a ‘skan’?) is less electronic and plenty mainstream, but crucially, doesn’t sound forced. It’s vaguely reminiscent of The Killers, and perhaps paves the way they should have gone with ‘Sam’s Town’: a dark, faux-spooky affair which KOs you with killer hook after killer hook. And all this without mentioning ‘new rave’ once.