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Origin | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
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Years active | 1999–present |
Labels | Domino, KIN, City Slang |
Website | www.juniorboys.net |
Members | Jeremy Greenspan Matt Didemus |
Past members | Johnny Dark |
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Junior Boys is the labour-of-love of Jeremy Greenspan, an Anglophile from Hamilton, Ontario. He had almost given up on the band after five years of going nowhere fast, but interest from the UK's KIN label reignited Jeremy's passion and he created the 2003 album 'Last Exit' as a solo project, with assistance from engineer Matt Didemus. One could argue that every Junior Boys album is about love, and Big Black Coat is no exception, but this time, the duo's devotion is to the '90s electronic music scene — a worthy muse, if there.
Junior Boys are a Canadian electronic pop group, founded in 1999 in Hamilton, Ontario by Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Dark left the project shortly after, and was replaced by engineer Matt Didemus.[7] The duo initially gained critical praise for their 2003 single 'Birthday' and 2004 debut album Last Exit. Their work incorporates disparate influences from 1980s synthpop, UK garage, techno, and R&B.[7]
History[edit]
Origins–2007: Last Exit and So This Is Goodbye[edit]
Junior Boys formed in 1999 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as a duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Years of collaboration followed and a demo was produced, but after many rejections and near-misses, they were resigned to being bedroom beat constructors. Soon after, Johnny Dark left the band to pursue other interests. Eventually, KIN Records heard their demo at the end of 2002 and commissioned more work from remaining member Greenspan. Hooking up with his engineer, Matt Didemus, he began again, writing more material and pulling an album together.
The first release Birthday/Last Exit came in October 2003 – a four-track EP with a remix by Fennesz which brought them near-unanimous acclaim.[8] The High Come Down EP followed in February 2004 with a Manitoba (now Caribou) remix and word began to spread. Their debut album, Last Exit (recorded at the end of 2003 by Greenspan and Didemus in Hamilton), was released 21 September 2004 on KIN Records. A reissue on Domino Records featured the Manitoba mix of Birthday, a Fennesz mix of title track, and a new track.
In 2006 Junior Boys reappeared with new releases. A remix of 'The Loving Sounds of Static' by Mobius Band was released on the Ghostly InternationalIdol Tryouts 2 compilation on 7 March 2006. 'Max', a new original song, was released on the Paper Bag Records compilation See You on the Moon! on 21 March 2006. Their second full-length album, So This Is Goodbye, was released in August 2006 on Domino.
2007 saw the Junior Boys embarking on a North American tour, and then headed to Europe for numerous festivals, continuing into the summer. The remix EP The Dead Horse EP was released in April containing remixes of tracks from So This Is Goodbye. An iTunes exclusive live EP was also released, reminiscent of a John Peel recording, with four live tracks.
Almost a year after its initial release So This Is Goodbye was re-released as a bonus edition including the original album, and remixes from the singles and the live tracks from the iTunes session.
On 10 July 2007, Junior Boys second album was revealed as being on the shortlist for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize.
2008–2011: Begone Dull Care and It's All True[edit]
In April 2008 a single on the German Get Physical label was released titled 'No Kinda Man', with mixes by Jona and Chloé. The original mix had just been featured on the same label's 'Body Language Six' compilation released in March. Whilst the vinyl version was compiled by the band, the CD version was also mixed by the duo.
In September 2008, Morgan Geist's new album 'Double Night Time' was released with five songs featuring Jeremy Greenspan.
On 16 January 2009, Junior Boys announced in an official press release that their third full-length album would be titled Begone Dull Care,[9] and released on 24 March 2009 in Canada, 7 April in the United States and 11 May in Germany.[10] The title and content of the new album was stated to be inspired by the Canadian animator Norman McLaren. A single from the album, 'Hazel', was released on Domino Recording Company in April 2009. Junior Boys finally managed to tour Australia in September 2009 as part of the Parklife Festival.
On 9 October 2010, via their Facebook page, they announced that their new album was nearly complete.[11] On 11 March 2011, Junior Boys announced that their new album, It's All True, will be released on 13 June 2011.[12]
Luke Winkie at Paste Magazine reviewed It's All True and the album received a score of 7.7 out of ten from the magazine.[13] 'If Junior Boys' fourth album It's All True proves anything, it's that the Ontarian, indie-electro originals will never be fully defrosted. Their stealthy, dampened beat-work has kept them remarkably suave in a subgenre that generally softens up to a dorkier demographic – and seven years since Last Exit the band is as frigidly unflappable as ever, progressing nicely through their expected idiosyncrasies, while continuing to sound effortlessly and solitarily cool.'
They have been chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.[14]
2012–present: Big Black Coat[edit]
After the release of It's All True, the duo pursued solo and side projects, which included Jeremy Greenspan's working on music by Caribou and Jessy Lanza.[15] In October 2015, the duo announced their fifth studio album and first release in five years, Big Black Coat. The album was released on the group's new label home, City Slang, in February 2016, and was preceded by two singles in late 2015: the title track, and 'Over It'.[16]
Promotions and media[edit]
In support of their 2006 album So This Is Goodbye, Junior Boys launched a fan-submitted video contest in conjunction with Domino Records and Imeem.com (now defunct). Participants were invited to use any song from So This Is Goodbye as the soundtrack for their original video creations. The winner is to receive a $1000 in cash and prizes.
In October 2006 Junior Boys launched SoThisIsGoodbye.com (no longer held by Junior Boys), an interactive flash website based on the inspiration for the title. 'It's about dealing with the kind of goodbyes you say to things all the time that actually don't tear you to pieces' explains Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys. Users were invited to post goodbye messages in the spirit of the title and to read those of others.
In December 2006, Junior Boys produced a podcast with interview clips and tracks from So This Is Goodbye. The podcast was featured as part of the Dominocast series of podcasts.
In August 2007 the track 'In The Morning' from So This Is Goodbye was featured in Mack Dawg Productions 'Picture This' for Finnish professional snowboarder Eero Ettala's video part. 'In The Morning' was also used for the 'Picture This' trailer.
'So This Is Goodbye' was recently used in the HBO drama Looking in 2015 as part of Season 2, episode 4, end credit sequence.
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- Last Exit (2004, Domino)
- So This Is Goodbye (2006, Domino)
- Begone Dull Care (2009, Domino)
- It's All True (2011, Domino)
- Big Black Coat (2016, City Slang)
Extended plays[edit]
- The Dead Horse EP (2007, Domino)
- Kiss Me All Night EP (2016, City Slang/Domino)
Singles[edit]
- 'Birthday/Last Exit' (2003)
- 'High Come Down' (2004)
- 'In the Morning' (2006)
- 'No Kinda Man' (2008)
- 'Hazel' (2009)
- 'Bits & Pieces' (2010)
- 'Banana Ripple' (2011)
- 'Big Black Coat' (2015)
Remixes[edit]
- Yoko Ono – 'Give Me Something' (2010)
- Stars – 'Sleep Tonight' - Do You Trust Your Friends? (Remix Album) (2007)
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References[edit]
- ^'Articles: Junior Boys | Features'. Pitchfork. 21 September 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^Geslani, Michelle (18 November 2015). 'Junior Boys share smooth new song 'Over It' — listen'. Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys - Stereogum'. Stereogum. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'RA: Junior Boys'. Residentadvisor.net. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys: So This is Goodbye'. PopMatters.com. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^Murray, Noel. 'Last Exit · Junior Boys · Music Review Junior Boys: Last Exit · Music Review · The A.V. Club'. Avclub.com. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^ abAndy Kellman. 'Junior Boys | Biography & History'. AllMusic. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys: Last Exit'. Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^'Frequencies: Year in Review 2009'. Exclaim.ca. 22 November 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Featured Content on Myspace'. Blogs.myspace.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^'Junior Boys - Tijdlijnfoto's'. Facebook. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^'New Junior Boys Album: It's All True (+ MP3)', Obscure Sound, 11 March 2011.
- ^Winkie, Luke. 'Junior Boys: It's All True :: Music :: Reviews :: Paste'. Pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^'Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Battles/Caribou/Les Savy Fav - All Tomorrow's Parties'. Atpfestival.com. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys return with first album in five years, Big Black Coat'. Factmag.com. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys Return With New Album Big Black Coat, Share Title Track'. Pitchfork. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
External links[edit]
The story so far...
The Junior Boys defy any easy equation of pop or dance, joining a long tradition of sonically rich pop that unites emotionally charged songcraft with experimental genres (eg - New Order, Beach Boys). Just as Luomo redefined house, mixing dub, electronica and vocals, this is breaks new ground for electro-pop, blending heart felt vocals with a production style that owes a debt to artists as varied as Timbaland, Todd Edwards, Fennesz and the Basic Channel school. In short, it reflects early 80s pop history back through the styles of contemporary dance. They formed somewhere around 1999 in Hamilton, Canada, the same town that brought us Manitoba and Kieran '4Tet' Hebden's text label.
Junior Boys Last Exit Rar Codes
Junior Boys conception occurred with two events: first listening to Dem 2's ‘Baby (you're so sexy)', causing them to say 'Yo! this is the future of music' then hearing Sylvian/Sakamoto doing ‘Bamboo Houses' prompting 'Woah! THIS is the future of music'
A band was formed, originally a duo: Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark, they began creating the sound that would reconcile these influences, creating exciting fresh pop music that is unapologetically synthetic, yet drenched with passion and feeling.Years of collaboration followed and the resulting demo was duly sent out but after a heap of rejections and near misses they were resigned to being bedroom geniuses, too retro for the garage scene, too pop for the underground. After Johnny left the band to pursue other interests there didn't seem much point continuing. That was until KIN heard their demo at the end of 2002 and commissioned more work from the remaining member. Hooking up with his engineer, Matt Didemus, Jeremy began again, writing more material and pulling an album together.
The first release Birthday / Last Exit in october 2003, a four track ep with remix by Fennesz, brought them unanimous acclaim when it caught the attention of the burgeoning blog scene (a loose collective of music writers) who jokingly tagged them 'the greatest band you've never heard of'.High Come Down EP followed in February 2004 and word began to spread.
Which brings us to the album Last Exit, due for release on the 7th of June in the UK was recorded in Hamilton late 2004. And having developed a 'live' act they are performing a few key dates to showcase the album.
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References[edit]
- ^'Articles: Junior Boys | Features'. Pitchfork. 21 September 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^Geslani, Michelle (18 November 2015). 'Junior Boys share smooth new song 'Over It' — listen'. Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys - Stereogum'. Stereogum. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'RA: Junior Boys'. Residentadvisor.net. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys: So This is Goodbye'. PopMatters.com. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^Murray, Noel. 'Last Exit · Junior Boys · Music Review Junior Boys: Last Exit · Music Review · The A.V. Club'. Avclub.com. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^ abAndy Kellman. 'Junior Boys | Biography & History'. AllMusic. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys: Last Exit'. Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^'Frequencies: Year in Review 2009'. Exclaim.ca. 22 November 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Featured Content on Myspace'. Blogs.myspace.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^'Junior Boys - Tijdlijnfoto's'. Facebook. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^'New Junior Boys Album: It's All True (+ MP3)', Obscure Sound, 11 March 2011.
- ^Winkie, Luke. 'Junior Boys: It's All True :: Music :: Reviews :: Paste'. Pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^'Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Battles/Caribou/Les Savy Fav - All Tomorrow's Parties'. Atpfestival.com. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys return with first album in five years, Big Black Coat'. Factmag.com. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^'Junior Boys Return With New Album Big Black Coat, Share Title Track'. Pitchfork. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
External links[edit]
The story so far...
The Junior Boys defy any easy equation of pop or dance, joining a long tradition of sonically rich pop that unites emotionally charged songcraft with experimental genres (eg - New Order, Beach Boys). Just as Luomo redefined house, mixing dub, electronica and vocals, this is breaks new ground for electro-pop, blending heart felt vocals with a production style that owes a debt to artists as varied as Timbaland, Todd Edwards, Fennesz and the Basic Channel school. In short, it reflects early 80s pop history back through the styles of contemporary dance. They formed somewhere around 1999 in Hamilton, Canada, the same town that brought us Manitoba and Kieran '4Tet' Hebden's text label.
Junior Boys Last Exit Rar Codes
Junior Boys conception occurred with two events: first listening to Dem 2's ‘Baby (you're so sexy)', causing them to say 'Yo! this is the future of music' then hearing Sylvian/Sakamoto doing ‘Bamboo Houses' prompting 'Woah! THIS is the future of music'
A band was formed, originally a duo: Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark, they began creating the sound that would reconcile these influences, creating exciting fresh pop music that is unapologetically synthetic, yet drenched with passion and feeling.Years of collaboration followed and the resulting demo was duly sent out but after a heap of rejections and near misses they were resigned to being bedroom geniuses, too retro for the garage scene, too pop for the underground. After Johnny left the band to pursue other interests there didn't seem much point continuing. That was until KIN heard their demo at the end of 2002 and commissioned more work from the remaining member. Hooking up with his engineer, Matt Didemus, Jeremy began again, writing more material and pulling an album together.
The first release Birthday / Last Exit in october 2003, a four track ep with remix by Fennesz, brought them unanimous acclaim when it caught the attention of the burgeoning blog scene (a loose collective of music writers) who jokingly tagged them 'the greatest band you've never heard of'.High Come Down EP followed in February 2004 and word began to spread.
Which brings us to the album Last Exit, due for release on the 7th of June in the UK was recorded in Hamilton late 2004. And having developed a 'live' act they are performing a few key dates to showcase the album.
Hear the music · Read the reviews · Buy the album · Press information
- Dance Album of the Month
***** 5 stars - MOJO
- It's hard to believe there will be a better record than Last Exit released this year
***** 5 stars – UNCUT
- fifth highest rated album of the year with 87/100 average
METACRITIC
- its heights eclipse virtually all other music this year..
PITCHFORK 8.9/10
- New Order produced by The Neptunes, anyone? The first album of the 21st Century. Astonishing
CMU
- Brave new world of electro-pop
**** - Q MAGAZINE
- Beautiful dance flecked synthpop
**** - MIXMAG
- Junior Boys is such an astounding relief, boarding on rapturous in their melancholy
URB
- the Boys' combo of neutered soulboyisms and jiggy electronics gives the impression they could be the start of something new for indie rock
VILLAGE VOICE
- a truly excellent album, one of the best of 2004 so far
DUSTED 9/10
- suave debut album... synthesizes different iterations of electronica: dubby microhouse, old-fashioned new wave, futuristic R & B
NEW YORK TIMES
- a dreamy suite of bruise-tender electro and quicksilver soul
VICE
- one of the best albums that you will hear all year. Highly Recommended
OTHER MUSIC
- it's hard to see how this group can go wrong in the future
STYLUS - 9.7 / 10
- a quietly revolutionary album. Within six months savvy producers will borrow and steal its innovations, changing the pop landscape for years to come. Few will realize where it started.
fast n bulbous 10/10
- create songs that bring echoes of the past yet take a step forward
Exploding Plastic 10/10
- Hard to imagine any other record this year that will inject so much life into pop music, or one that will give the underground as much inspiration and validity as this
BoomKat
- Kompletter Killer!
DE:BUG 5/5
- essential... a powerful drug
LES INROCKUPTIBLES
- a massive album that sees the wire's aesthetic meeting early 80s smash hits Album of the week
ROUGH TRADE
- ...suggest Talk Talk produced by Timbaland, Hall & Oates having a panic attack and a very sleepy Underworld.. Junior Boys' spectral vision of electronic pop is an understated, unpredictable delight
**** THE GUARDIAN
- a slow and cinematic road trip of a record; buy it yesterday.
ABSORB (album of the month / ep of the month x2 )
- this record is breathtaking...
MIAMI NEW TIMES
older reviews
- Junior Boy[s] continues to weave a beguiling kind of ghost pop that cross-breeds the unlikely strains of UK garage, Brian Wilson and hauntingly deconstructed dub techno with a twitchy grin, teasing the conventions of pop to the brink of collapse'.
Jockey Slut Magazine - Jockey Slut
'the Luomo-versed Junior Boys have made two of 2003's best indie pop singles'
'...bleeding their songcraft into groove and rhythm, creating a delicate sculpture of broken dreams and beats'.
8.5 / 10
Scott Plagenhoef - Pitchfork
'The Canadian electro-pop enigmas drift silently within radar range and grab us unsuspectingly by the nuts and hearts. Naïve lyrics and melodies wrapped in gauzy mystery, coming on like the bastard sons of Marc Almond and Maurizio. Check.'.
Mike Carhart-Harris - Sleazenation
'21st century Aphex Twin'.
Number 11 in Hot New Stars feature - MixMag'Both 'Birthday' and 'Last Exit' pair quaint synthpop arpeggios with irregular rhythms more suggestive of contemporary R&B; the array of wiry analog tones highlights Greenspan's shadowy voice as though illuminating him in profile.'
Philip Sherburne - The WireJunior Boys Last Exit Rar Full
'Curiously alien, gloriously synthetic and quite, quite beautiful Canadian pop-hymns toughened up with urban ruggedness; vocals so lachrymose they literally drip with sadness; there's a gaping silence BETWEEN the beats that sounds like a black-hole reversing on itself; what Scout Niblett would be doing if she had downed a pill containing the last 20 years of electronic music with a whiskey chaser; the need for speed? Junior Boys play parlour games with tempo: their rhythms sound like they are drifting backwards through snow, slow, slow, slowly.'
Chris Houghton - Careless Talk Costs Lives
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'...bring as much rhythmic inventiveness to the table as any producer in hip hop and garage combined; their insolence lies in incongruously combining it with glittering arctic romanticism.'
Tim Finney - Skykicking
'Heirs to Timbaland and Sylvian, Junior Boys are equal parts emotive wistfulness and stop start stutter rhythms; a combination that's as unique yet natural as their ever so (slyly) generic name.'
Kodwo Eshun - journalist / author of 'More Brilliant than the Sun'
Unexpectedly, unaccountably, Pop has a future....
Mark Fisher - K-punk
'think crickets on quaaludes filmed on Super8 and then run backwards through a Speak 'n Spell'.
Leslie Gilotti - Play Louder
'...neon world outside, trying to make sense out of the shapes beyond the window, rerunning the last few hours, trying to recapture those moments when you felt immortal just because you were dancing without feeling selfconscious to the greatest song you'd ever heard and you forgot to ask the DJ what it was…. poised between nausea and insanely profound thoughts, the faint strain of some local FM station fading in and out beneath the cabbie radio banter sounding like the most poignant soundtrack... and that's what Junior Boys sound like. Listening to Junior Boys and reading k-punk on their spectral roadmusic. It conjures up an essential part of clubbing rarely mentioned: the taxi home. Back to the early 80s for my anecdotal ramblings: post-Phonographique drunk, forlorn, battered by aural hallucinations and abandoned by friends. Mind on early 20s overdrive. Aching with unrequited love for just about any goth nymphet who'd displaying the right mix of stockingtop and distain and gone off with some Kirkgate fishmonger with a rockabilly quiff. Sprawled alone in the back of a cab watching the ghostly....'.
Nigel Richardson - Yes/No Interlude
notes by K-punk (mark fisher)
How to describe the Junior Boys?
Elegantly refurbished synthpop, 2-step denuded of R and B's presence .... Jewel-glittering irridescent electro....
Dem 2, Luomo, OMD, Steely Dan, Hall and Oates, Talk Talk: who would have made any connections between these bands until they heard the Junior Boys? The Junior Boys reveal previously unsuspected complicities and affinities amongst their precursors. They are custom-built to illustrate the concept 'uneasy listening' - the unsettling of MOR, ambient and Pop. Make no mistake: for all their rhythmic inventiveness, the Junior Boys' songs are great Pop, much catchier than anything you are likely to hear on the charts this or any other week.
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As with all great Pop, it's a question of seduction and addiction. Hear their songs once, and they are under your skin. Hear them again, and you're hooked. They are part of your nervous system, a soundtrack to your craving.
Not that the Junior Boys' sound like much else on the current Pop landscape. The Jbeez are dissenters from Now Pop's striplit presence, even if they are utterly contemporary. Junior Boys' vocals are the opposite of full-on: emptied out, emaciated, exhausted. On second thoughts, 'exhausted' doesn't quite capture their quality. Jeremy's is a very, very late night voice, certainly, and these are very, very late night songs. But it is not so much exhausted as on the cusp between waking and sleep, in that state where you are tired enough to relinquish the everyday, but awake enough to want to defer falling into unconsciousness. It's that state - where vulnerability, openness, reflectiveness, calm, anxiety, bliss, blend and blur - that is the Junior Boys' signature affect.
And so many of the songs seem like emotions translated into dreams, or the mind recalling a day's (daze) events as it succumbs to dream, or emotions from a dream being recalled. Dreamotions....
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The JBs sound like a city at night: each song exploring terrain as feeling, feeling as terrain. Dub House(s), the borders and bridges, highways and highrises of Calvinoesque semi-visible cities ... Full of SPACE, everything here is here to emphasise the gaps; that dub paradox, a sorcerous formula which the Junior Boys understand much better than many more literal(istic) would-be dubsters, those who think that turning up the bass and turning down the vocals is ENOUGH....when dub is about re-defining what COUNTS as enough, about (need)LESSNESS.... Junior Boys' (2-step) (heart) beats punctuate time irregularly (mark an irregular Time) just so as to open up space, spaces...Fall into them.