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So This Is Goodbye (CD)

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Junior Boys Artist Snapshot:

A Hamilton, Canada-based electro-pop duo that combined the twitchy, rhythmic science of post-drum & bass dance with the melancholy synth-swept textures of New Romantic pop, Junior Boys was formed in the late `90s by singer Jeremy Greenspan and beat-maker Johnny Dark. After a slew of rejected demo recordings in the early `00s, the group were picked up by obscure U.K. indie KIN, who released their debut single, "Birthday." Dark left soon after to start a solo project and, with the addition of engineer Matt Didemus, the JBs continued as a duo and released their critically-hailed debut LAST EXIT (2004). Follow-ups, SO THIS IS GOODBYE (2006) and BEGONE DULL CARE (2009), indicated a broader palette of influences and more confident songwriting, with Jeremy Greenspan's buoyant falsetto increasingly taking the fore.

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DISC 1 for So This Is Goodbye (CD) Album By Junior Boys (Artist)
1   Double Shadow
2   Equalizer, The
3   First Time
4   Count Souvenirs
5   In The Morning
6   So This Is Goodbye
7   Like A Child
8   Caught In A Wave
9   When No One Cares
10   FM
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.86) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] tosses in tunes with breathy Eighties vocals, well-placed atmospherics and chilly-chill beats."
Q (p.117) - Ranked #75 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006."
Uncut (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he Junior Boys lift classic motifs from across the history of graceful, breathy electronic pop."
CMJ (p.4) - "[A] collection of wonderfully glacial, surprisingly intimate electronic tracks....[They] keep every minimalist drum machine loop and hollow, bleeping effect anchored in a fragile humanity."
Vibe (p.161) - "[O]n their excellent second album, they smuggle in their fey, love-is-all affect amid percolating electro-soul beats and gorgeous, sublime pop hooks."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[B]reathy, vulnerable vocals, taut and toned electro...and German minimalism..."

Title Note

Junior Boys: Jeremy Greenspan (vocals).

Additional personnel: Andi Toma (keyboards).

Recording information: 2006.

While Junior Boys' debut indie sleeper LAST EXIT leaned more toward pastiche--a product of influences as far afield as 2-step garage and Timbaland's stutter-funk--their sophomore effort, SO THIS IS GOODBYE, is a step toward pop song form (albeit of the slowly unfurling, epic variety). Junior Boys recast the notion of northern soul in terms of blue-eyed crooners born of icy Canadian winters, as opposed to the inner-city blues of the American rustbelt. Jeremy Greenspan's weightlessly gorgeous voice contrasts with the music's frigid, prickly synth arpeggiation--extending like icicles from aerated frozen tundra. Steeped in elegant melodies and artful textures, Junior Boys remodel new romantic pop as etherealized neo-soul.

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