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When faced with a vast and unknown gulf, the most standard response is to find a path to circumvent it. A very basic and understandable impulse exists to avoid that obstacle – unless of course, you are Klaxons. When you’re less a band and more a sonic Socratic method wrapped in hard-driving guitars and anthemic melodies, the gulf is embraced, and the void is ultimately surfed.

The path to Klaxons’ sophomore release Surfing the Void was rife with hard-won clarity and false starts. After the success of 2007’s Myths of the Near Future, the London-based quartet were poised...