{"id":981,"date":"2008-07-09T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2008-07-09T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:43:54","slug":"midnight-juggernauts-dystopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"midnight juggernauts – dystopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

having read about these australians a little in recent months, and being a fan of their electro’d up remix for the noisy punk-funk gang, these damn arms<\/strong>, i was rather keen to hear the album.<\/p>\n

despite the wonderful cover art being covered by a massive irremovable sticker making mention of the fact that someone has strangely connected this album to psychedelic furs<\/strong> (yes in parts) and  tangerine dream <\/strong>(don’t get this reference at all), i still decided to take a punt and see if the glowing reviews were right.<\/p>\n

and in short – they are.<\/p>\n

this is exactly<\/u> the  kind of music that is making ireallylovemusic happy in 2008. <\/p>\n

electronically enhanced pop music in which synths, guitars and tunes are combined in ear pleasingly wonderful ways. <\/p>\n

reading the website gubbins you’d think that dystopia<\/font> is an electro obsessed star gazing prog rock wig out, which in some ways it is.<\/p>\n

starting off with a dramatic synthetic sweep the listener is drawn into the bands alternative sci-fi universe, full of pulsating analogue synths that have been genetically enhanced via some matrix styled computer virus, fleshed out strings and heartwarming song structures.<\/p>\n

i mean check out into the galaxy<\/font> and try and stop yourself having a huge grin from ear to ear as the chorus kicks in for the umpteenth time, or then again, stop yourself having a personal glitterball boogie to the even better plastic disco funk of shadows<\/font>, or even more necessary, stop yourself from having a weird 80s themed timewarp during the superb darker moods of worlds converged<\/font> (which it has to be said is far too short at two minutes).<\/p>\n

in fact, there have been days in recent weeks when this album has made me contemplate throwing away my complete archive such is the addictive nature of this 47 minute opus.<\/p>\n

then after 4 listens, the penny drops.<\/p>\n

dystopia<\/font>  is an updated justice<\/strong> via daft punk<\/strong> (tombstone<\/font> gets a little too close to the french electro punkers) infused retake on the time<\/font> album by the electric light orchestra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

oh yes, the oft forgetten elo<\/strong> electro period.<\/p>\n

time<\/font> was a concept album about space travel and time, set to 80s synth pop soundtrack of the day and was probably the last time elo<\/strong> were relevant, and once this unexpected revelation hits home, you begin to hear that there are several other connecting factors with dystopia, <\/font>the use of layered harmonious vocals (and even the use of the vocoder), the use of a story arc\/theme across the spread of the album, and more importantly, genuinely good songs that work well as a complete uninterrupted listen.<\/font><\/p>\n

favourite album of the year so far ? <\/p>\n

yup – no doubt about it.<\/p>\n

more detail<\/u> : here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

having read about these australians a little in recent months, and being a fan of their electro’d up remix for the noisy punk-funk gang, these damn arms, i was rather keen to hear the album. despite the wonderful cover art being covered by a massive irremovable sticker making mention of the fact that someone has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}