James Arden checks out the garage rockers latest album.
The Christian rock band from Brighton bring religion to the masses.
Recipe for modern R'n'B album: liberal helpings of guest rappers and an overdose of sexual euphemisms.
Bands like Sonic Youth succeeded in some way but in others they simply created ten minute long tracks of an amp slowly dying. In another way, ambience based tracks often contain an unnecessarily long sustained chord on a keyboard or a synthesizer.
With this base many bands look to expand in a number of different directions. The Midnight Juggernauts look to follow in the footsteps of indie predecessor like that of Bloc Party, but fall very short. Their album aims to create too much a disparity between upbeat tracks that contain the ambient bass and song are simply nothing but boring three minute monotone tracks that feel like someone is dragging you through some sort of vortex.
At times Dystopia sounds like nothing more than an attempt to sound something like Damon Albarn
The bland nature of these songs lays in the singer’s voice as well as the lack of character in the music. The first track or two of the more relaxed, trance are nice to listen to, but you’re quickly left with the desire to skip to the next track and hope for one of the more upbeat songs.
The strength in Dystopia is in the close resemblance to something by either the Gorillaz or Blur. The air sound of the tracks does give it a bit of mystery and build up. Unfortunately , the build up leads to nothing more than a search through the rest of the album to find the crashing zenith, but sadly all are let down as the listener is continuously dragged through the synthesized dream land created by the Midnight Juggernauts.
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