In robotic engineering and CGI, the Uncanny Valley is a hypothesis — coined by legendary roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970 – he wrote in his work Bukimi no Tani Genshō (不気味の谷現象). “I have noticed that, in climbing toward the goal of making robots appear human, our affinity for them increases until we come to a valley, which I call the uncanny valley.”
The dark depths of this philosophical valley is a space the trio — Vincent Vendetta, Andrew Szekeres, Daniel Stricker — have long explored. Running traditional rock instruments (guitar, keyboards, drums) through samplers, pedals, patches, and assorted effects, they pervert the familiar into slightly-off forms; robotic sounds made by human hands, with the waft of unsettling horror-soundtracks keeping things forever on edge.
Uncanny Valley marks Midnight Juggernaut’s third full-length journey into the deep, once again piloting their glittery kosmische musik far into known cosmos and unknown genre. The band began rolling tape between a church nestled in the Loire Valley in the French countryside and various studios in Melbourne and Sydney; the resulting record is another LP that sounds uniquely Midnight Juggernauts.
Situated at a self-styled nexus between genre and era, Uncanny Valley is 43 minutes of warm-hearted cold wave, interstellar harmony’s, early 1950’s house, steeped in the darkness of dusty Giallo soundtracks, audio spomeniks at once futuristic and rustic, a bold musical future envisaged through a soundtrack to a forgotten Eastern Bloc Tarkovsky film, sifting through the ruins of LPs past.
Following national supports for Tame Impala and playing Groovin’ The Moo, Midnight Juggernauts will launch Uncanny Valley in Europe and South America this June and July 2013, playing shows in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, UK, France, Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Portugal.
Midnight Juggernauts will launch Uncanny Valley nationally in Australia this August and September 2013.
Wednesday 14 August – Bar On The Hill, Newcastle
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Friday 16 August – Metro Theatre, Sydney *ALL AGES
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Saturday 17 August – Zierholz, Canberra
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Friday 23 August – Karova Lounge, Ballarat
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Saturday 24 August – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
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Friday 30 August – Hi Fi, Brisbane
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Saturday 31 August – The Northern, Byron Bay
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Friday 6 September – Prince Of Wales, Bunbury
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Saturday 7 September – The Capitol, Perth
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Friday 13 September – Uni Bar, Adelaide * ALL AGES
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