Tuesday Tunes: Midnight Juggernauts' music is psyching us out
- Author: Faith-Ann Young
- Posted on: Tuesday October 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Filed under: music, dream, midnight juggernauts, electronic, australia, psychedelic
Some days, just when you think you've got it figured all out, the bus departs and rain erupts out of the clear sky, your computer harddrive combusts while you are backing it up, a bird plops a big juicy goblet of white upon you as clear as snow, the coffee machine breaks just when you feel like you'd be better off injecting caffeine straight into a membrane, your mom calls to talk for 2.5 hours about how far your life is going (answer: nowhere), your message in a bottle sinks to the bottom of the sea, you are shit out of a home and winter is coming, etc, etc, etc.
You get the point. We are generally feverishly optimistic happy-joy-happy people, but sometimes, just sometimes, it feels like it has been a long 24 hours, which is part of a long day, which is a summary of a long year, which equates to a long existence.
Yup. This feeling usally bubbles up around Tuesday.
Thus, as the pot at the end of a really really dark rainbow, today we decided to provide you with one mighty, uplifting, psychedelic punch of glory.
......A new video by the Aussie electro sound-stars Mighnight Juggernauts.
It's shot grimy and whismically kaleidoscopic. (That's the second time TODAY we've used that word on this site - if that's an indication of our current demeanor. *wink)
For lack of better words and sincerity's sake, the video is a beautiful, utter mind f*ck. Swirling colors of a daydream merge with a mirage of snowflakes and prism-reflections. You'll find yourself rubbing your eyes and trying to pinch yourself if your dreaming but the end of it.
Oh yeah, and the music - a glitzy, dramatic, Queen meets Bowie-in-the-time-of-Labrinyth-like retro riff complete with a ghoulish organ - is jolly good too.
Happy Tuesday.
With Love.
This New Technology - Midnight Juggernauts from midnight juggernauts on Vimeo.
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