Summary

The dog days of summer found Midnight Generation making their way across the American Midwest, sharing stages with Empire of the Sun and Polo & Pan on a North American tour. Somewhere near Chicago, Fernando Mares, the Mexican disco-funk band’s frontman, stumbled upon a vocoder, an instrument that can give the human voice a robotic, synthesizer-like sound, for sale on Facebook Marketplace. At the time, touring was only part of the band’s workload. Between shows, the Chihuahua-born quintet had also been busy recording Rooted, their new album.

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