So This Is Goodbye
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jazzy_daveWhilst in Ashford on Saturday I perused some charity shops and found this album for a quid. Bit of a punt then when I got home discovered it was reviewed in Wire mag in2006. Playing it now and I am loving this electropop groove they have going.
A great find!
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (full album)
Tracklist:
1 Double Shadow 00:00
2 The Equalizer 04:22
3 First Time 09:50
4 Count Souvenirs 14:47
5 In the Morning 19:50
6 So This Is Goodbye 24:16
7 Like a Child 29:50
8 Caught in a Wave 35:42
9 When No One Cares 39:51
10 FM 43:11
This is what WIre said -
Junior Boys So This Is Goodbye DOMINO CD/LP Before the words ‘MySpace phenomenon’ became a tabloid cliche, 2004’s Last Exit made Hamilton, Ontario’s Junior Boys an Internet success story. Jeremy Greenspan’s elegantly melancholy needle-stitching of John Foxx’s glacial electronics, R&B gloss and two-step skip failed to rack up a single Top Ten hit or even bag a major label deal. However, it did win the blogosphere’s collective heart, with many mainstream plaudits to follow. So This Is Goodbye sees him comfortable with the role of critical darling but far from complacent. With an updated sonic palette – leaning heavily toward electro House and avant disco, and now barely a whisper of UK Garage’s percussive lacework – it would sound equally at home on Cologne’s Kompakt label or Brooklyn’s Environ. Straddling oceans both stylistic and geographic, a misty-eyed rootlessness is at its core, mixing jetlagged wooziness with the twilit sadness of breakups and unrequited love. “Double Shadow” opens by dappling a bubbling backing track with yearning, Todd Edwards-inspired, razor slashed vocals, and “Count Souvenirs” channels Violator-era Depeche Mode shooting up sherbet, its opiated introspection leavened with effervescent sweetness. “In The Morning”’s keyboard arpeggios call to mind Giorgio Moroder, Vince Clarke and Timbaland’s recent abrasive Europop confections, as wistful Superpitcher-style MicroHouse underpins the title track. Despite the timely list of influences, arch and knowing it isn’t. In fact, Junior Boys’ greatest triumph remains the innocence and lightness of touch that makes tracks such as “Like A Child” ring so true.
A great find!
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (full album)
Tracklist:
1 Double Shadow 00:00
2 The Equalizer 04:22
3 First Time 09:50
4 Count Souvenirs 14:47
5 In the Morning 19:50
6 So This Is Goodbye 24:16
7 Like a Child 29:50
8 Caught in a Wave 35:42
9 When No One Cares 39:51
10 FM 43:11
This is what WIre said -
Junior Boys So This Is Goodbye DOMINO CD/LP Before the words ‘MySpace phenomenon’ became a tabloid cliche, 2004’s Last Exit made Hamilton, Ontario’s Junior Boys an Internet success story. Jeremy Greenspan’s elegantly melancholy needle-stitching of John Foxx’s glacial electronics, R&B gloss and two-step skip failed to rack up a single Top Ten hit or even bag a major label deal. However, it did win the blogosphere’s collective heart, with many mainstream plaudits to follow. So This Is Goodbye sees him comfortable with the role of critical darling but far from complacent. With an updated sonic palette – leaning heavily toward electro House and avant disco, and now barely a whisper of UK Garage’s percussive lacework – it would sound equally at home on Cologne’s Kompakt label or Brooklyn’s Environ. Straddling oceans both stylistic and geographic, a misty-eyed rootlessness is at its core, mixing jetlagged wooziness with the twilit sadness of breakups and unrequited love. “Double Shadow” opens by dappling a bubbling backing track with yearning, Todd Edwards-inspired, razor slashed vocals, and “Count Souvenirs” channels Violator-era Depeche Mode shooting up sherbet, its opiated introspection leavened with effervescent sweetness. “In The Morning”’s keyboard arpeggios call to mind Giorgio Moroder, Vince Clarke and Timbaland’s recent abrasive Europop confections, as wistful Superpitcher-style MicroHouse underpins the title track. Despite the timely list of influences, arch and knowing it isn’t. In fact, Junior Boys’ greatest triumph remains the innocence and lightness of touch that makes tracks such as “Like A Child” ring so true.
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