Taking its title and inspiration from a collaboration between animator/filmmaker Norman McLaren and jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, Begone Dull Care is, at once, the most upbeat and subtle album from Junior Boys yet. At first, these songs seem to lack distinction from one another, but the duo's painstaking attention to detail and nuance -- traits they recognized in McLaren's work -- gradually glints through, however briefly. Other than the hypnotic "Work" and the playfully geeky "Hazel," the set is punchless, more a pleasant mood album fit for casual background listening, lacking the unnerved tension that runs through the majority of Last Exit and So This Is Goodbye. The most daring aspect of the album is the title, in particular its second word.
When the words electro and pop go together, it almost sounds too childish to take seriously and you'd even be fooled into thinking that with a name like Junior Boys, that the electro-pop band in question are themselves a little childish but surprisingly, this album proves both of those assumptions wrong.
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So this is the third Junior Boys album. The first of the bunch, Last Exit, was one of my favourites of 2004, and almost single-handedly inspired my friend and I to start a band. I remember Jeremy Greenspan from one of my English classes at McMaster. At the time he wore enormous pants that resembled [...]Related posts:Dead Boys “Young Loud And Snotty” - Album Review Every once in awhile, after
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So this is the third Junior Boys album. The first of the bunch, Last Exit, was one of my favourites of 2004, and almost single-handedly inspired my friend and I to start a band. I remember Jeremy Greenspan from one of my English classes at McMaster. At the time he wore enormous pants that resembled [...]Related posts:Dead Boys “Young Loud And Snotty” - Album Review Every once in awhile, after
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When the words electro and pop go together, it almost sounds too childish to take seriously and you'd even be fooled into thinking that with a name like Junior Boys, that the electro-pop band in question are themselves a little childish but surprisingly, this album proves both of those assumptions wrong.
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Above: A contemplative Junior Boys, bathed in heavenly light, "lounge around" on a sunny summer afternoon. Junior Boys are gearing up to relese their third album, "Begone Dull Care," on April 7th in the US. It's been two years in the making, and two years since their last effort, the awesome "So This Is Goodbye." We've [...]
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A Hamilton, Ontario-based electronic pop group, Junior Boys is influenced by a number of music sectors — including arty synth pop, minimal techno, U.K. garage, and contemporary hip-hop.On January 16, the duo announced in an official press release that their third full length album would be title Begone Dull Care, and released on March 24 [...]
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The duo of Greenspan and Matthew Didemus, released their third album, Begone Dull Care, earlier this year on Domino Records.We fondly remember the very first time we got to hear Junior Boys, and how they amazed us with their simplicity.A new single featuring Modeselektor and Prins Thomas remixes of Begone Dull Care tracks “Bits and [...]
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| 1 Parallel Lines |
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| 2 Work |
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| 3 Bits & Pieces |
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| 4 Dull to Pause |
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| 5 Hazel |
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| 6 Sneak a Picture |
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| 7 The Animator |
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| 8 What It's For |
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