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Track Review: Midnight Juggernauts "Into the Galaxy"
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Midnight Juggernauts' debut album Dystopia hit shops in their native Australia in late winter (aka August, for that wacky hemisphere), but seems unlikely to trickle up from Down Under any time this calendar year. The demand for said record is likely to skyrocket, however, as the band sets out to charm overflowing rooms as the opening act on Justice's North American tour this month. The Juggernauts have sited ELO as the prime inspiration for the synth saturation of single, "Into the Galaxy." Though the song's sunny scales make that comparison hard to refute, all I could think of when listening was Bowie, David. Theatrical readings of words like "psycho-robotic" are tough to ignore. But so what if the band wears their influences on retro futurist sleeves? The end result is timelessly catchy.
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The track sounds like Low if produced by Kraftwerk, or Trans-Euro by Bowie. I could do without the baroque synth break towards the end (that fourth chord kills me on its own), and a pre-chorus might be nice, but you're right: with a hook that enormous, who cares?
Sean Nelson