Klaxons
Klaxons almost scrapped their second album because they feared they would not be able to recreate the popular sound of their debut, Myths Of The Near Future.
The British band received huge critical acclaim with their first record in 2007, winning Britain's prestigious Mercury Prize for their experimental efforts, but the process of recording their follow-up disc was set back when they were forced to ditch a full album's worth of material after label bosses deemed it too "psychedelic".
The group's keyboardist James Righton admits the band came close to walking away from the project altogether. He said; "For a while we were nowhere near the headspace to make a record. The more we discussed what we wanted to become, the more tangled we got. It felt so forced. The opposite of what we were about.
"If I'm honest there was a brief point where I thought, 'Was it all just a moment in time that we can't recreate? Will we ever be able to do it again?'"
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