Junior Boys rocking my head with their blips and bleeps
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Perhaps it's my deep love for the original innovative electronics duo Suicide, that has me digging the Junior Boys so much. I mean, they really don't sound anything like them, but they have a nice mix of breathy Cure like vocals, and 80's synth pop beats, sampled hand claps, and oh so millennial alienation theme made popular by artists like Radiohead.
Hailing from Canada, Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus make up Junior Boys. Their website biography is overly wordy and its resemblance to an artist statement in smacks of a need for editing. So I must rely on their wikipedia entry for their bio.
They have 2 albums and an E.P. If one is to listen to "So This Is Goodbye" you might wonder why, in 2007, there isn't more pop music like this. It's earnest and sorrowful, it sounds like it was made on drum machines and a Gameboy (DS, mind you - or at the very least an old Korg sythesizer), and only conjures within me an inner voice which is beyond my own years, that is complaining how "kids nowadays" have lost their ambition and drive to push the envelope and try to create something that sounds new and refreshing. In other words it is the kind of bleeps an bloops that almost anyone with the right ear or ability could structure into a kind of catchy song that I salivate for.
This is not to say that simple equals easy. I just think in this time of multi-million dollar videos, superstar featured artist support, mogul producers, and fashion plates posing as genuine rock stars, we could use more "simple" like the Junior Boys in music. Junior Boys take elements of pop musics electronic past while keeping face forward to the future.
Hailing from Canada, Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus make up Junior Boys. Their website biography is overly wordy and its resemblance to an artist statement in smacks of a need for editing. So I must rely on their wikipedia entry for their bio.
They have 2 albums and an E.P. If one is to listen to "So This Is Goodbye" you might wonder why, in 2007, there isn't more pop music like this. It's earnest and sorrowful, it sounds like it was made on drum machines and a Gameboy (DS, mind you - or at the very least an old Korg sythesizer), and only conjures within me an inner voice which is beyond my own years, that is complaining how "kids nowadays" have lost their ambition and drive to push the envelope and try to create something that sounds new and refreshing. In other words it is the kind of bleeps an bloops that almost anyone with the right ear or ability could structure into a kind of catchy song that I salivate for.
This is not to say that simple equals easy. I just think in this time of multi-million dollar videos, superstar featured artist support, mogul producers, and fashion plates posing as genuine rock stars, we could use more "simple" like the Junior Boys in music. Junior Boys take elements of pop musics electronic past while keeping face forward to the future.
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