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	Dystopia
	[ARTIST ALBUM]
	Artist: Midnight Juggernauts Label: EMI Records Date: 19.05.08
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Dystopia is here! The long awaited album from Midnight Juggernauts, considered by many to be the most exciting new band for 2008. A privileged few may have booked the first available seats on Virgin Galactic's maiden outer-space voyage for 2009, but they needn't have bothered come Spring 2008, as Australia's masters of intergalactic space revelry, the Midnight Juggernauts, launch their debut album Dystopia onto an unsuspecting musical public. Interstellar space travel has never been quite so within arms reach, available to one and all in a single concentrated 50-minute supersonic burst. In the Midnight Juggernauts' Dystopia constellation a line can be traced from the modern symphony of M83 and Air, all the way back to the electronic psychedelia of CAN and the pop smarts of Electric Light Orchestra. John Carpenter is in the director's chair, Giorgio Moroder's compiling the soundtrack, and Goblin is screaming from the shadows.

Having first hit the UK's radar in 2005 with a few low-level vinyl EP's and remixes, Midnight Juggernauts are an act that came through the Modular influenced Australian hype machine, did things their own way and are now the complete act with a record deal, an outstanding debut LP and a live show to rival any of their peers.

The three-piece hail from Melbourne with Vincent on vox/keys, Andy on guitar/vox and the enigmatic Daniel on drums/vox. Having released their debut album independently through their own label Siberia Records, entering the Australian top 20, they kept complete creative freedom and also kept them open to growing interest from around the world, in particular the U.S, France and England, where they have blown crowds away. Personally invited by French wunderkind's Justice (who listed them in Pitchfork as their favorite new band) to support them on their world tour throughout the end of 2007, the Juggernauts impressed audiences from Los Angeles to London, and were one of the must see bands at CMJ in New York. They've supported acts including Klaxons, Digitalism, !!!, Holy Fuck, The Pixies and began 2008 with an electric performance on the mainstage of Australia's legendary Big Day Out. They have Coachella in the U.S confirmed, as well as an extensive run of shows in the UK, Europe, U.S and Japan planned to coincide with Dystopia's international release.

"A stunning record, Dystopia flows from one surreal track to the next, with the resonance of a film score that could have been produced in 1981 or somewhere in the distant future, giving it a sense of timelessness achieved by few."

- Lifelounge

"Like The Rapture with John Carpenter ..s, their pummelling space-disco is the perfect bridge between Bloc Party's indie elegies and a synapse-shredding Justice DJ set"

- NME

Favourite new band: Midnight Juggernauts. Favourite songs of the Year: Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy

- Pitchfork (chosen by Justice)

"Listening to Dystopia, the outstanding debut set from Melbourne's Midnight Juggernauts, may break a few listening habits you've long held true. For a start, it comes with an intro piece that could be an outtake to the Blakes's 7 score: space symphonies are an enduring motif on the album, linking the contemporary beats to the full spectrum of prog shadings that the group casually but carefully integrate. You may have ducked keyboard pomp until now, but the duo makes it work as a rich texture that offsets their industry. To put it another way, Air's effort's to channel Rick Wakeman have been shot down by this disc. From the relentless thump of 'Ending of an Era' onwards, Dystopia is joyous but never facile. It surges but doesn't always smile, taking in all kinds of astral tweaks: late 70s Bowie, Krautrock and Giorgio Moroder at his iciest. The lyrics – per the album's title – reflect on endings and collapse, but the tunes serve only to build in scale. 'Worlds Converged' is melancholic electronica, while 'Road to Recovery' remains a thrilling Daft Punk gambit. Quite when two mates from Melbourne who used to play the odd gig and had christened themselves after various dictators became the country's leading electronic act is unclear, but that title is more than earned by the breadth and sheer impressiveness of this collection. And if it sounds like it exists in a galaxy far, far away, then zero in on the brilliant 'Into The Galaxy'. Just when it sounds like it's gone overboard with the martial strutting, there's a rock & roll refrain to bring it back home: "G-L-O-R-I-A". Amen."

- Craig Mathieson, Mess + Noise