Klaxons 'took hallucinogenics for album'

Members of the Klaxons have revealed that they took a powerful hallucinogenic to aid the process of recording their new album.

Band members Jamie Reynolds and Simon Taylor-Davies admitted that they drank a plant extract, normally used by tribes in Peru, while in the company of an Amazonian spiritual leader in New York.

Reynolds told The Sun: "Everybody goes to these sessions with questions. Mine was 'How do I write this new album?' And it gave me the answer. 'You don't need anything. Just go and do it.' So we did. I saw a winged lizard ascending a spiral staircase, at the top of which was a glowing white ball."

Taylor-Davies added: "There had been tensions between us for a while. Circumstantial personality-based things that had gone unconfronted. The experience just connected us, gave us a new insight into each other and what we'd both been going through."

"There was a brief point where I thought, 'Will we ever be able to do it again?'" Reynolds added.

Klaxons new album, Surfing The Void, is out on August 23.