Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye

Reviews of So This Is Goodbye

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9 by Pitchfork Media My first introduction to Junior Boys was in autumn 2003. I had taken half a year off to travel alone, and I'd just left London, where a friend had given me a copy of the Birthday EP. I'd heard... Read more
3 by Rolling Stone With its 2004 debut, this Ontario, Canada, duo won praise for its fusion of synth pop, underground electro and cutting-edge R&B production. So This Is Goodbye is slower and more streamlined, but it dr... Read more
3 by Rolling Stone With its 2004 debut, this Ontario, Canada, duo won praise for its fusion of synth pop, underground electro and cutting-edge R&B production. So This Is Goodbye is slower and more streamlined, but it dr... Read more
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n/a by www.avclub.com Junior Boys created only a minor stir with their debut, Last Exit, perhaps because its muted sound and supple rhythms weren't as attention-grabbing as the more jagged, rowdy, guitar-based dance ba... Read more
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n/a by www.drawerb.com In today’s gimmicky, instant gratification and overly niche music market, bands that present themselves in vagueness and anti-image often seem married to a sense of bittersweet nostalgia that do... Read more
n/a by thephoenix.com Two years after Last Exit seduced the pants off the indie electronic world, these two Canadian lotharios return with an offer that could be even more tantalizing. In a world where bands hedge their da... Read more
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n/a by www.almostcool.org Junior Boys burst onto the scene a couple years back with their somewhat austere, but excellent Last Exit, an electro-pop gem that mixed ultra-clean synth lines with crisp beat programming and soulful... Read more
n/a by www.lostatsea.net The day has only just begun and already it's going badly for the male paramour of "In The Morning," the breathy, stuttering first single off the Junior Boys' refrigerated electro-pop m... Read more
n/a by Popmatters Although the majority of Canadians live in urban areas, mostly close to the American border, as heavily populated as their cities may seem, they remain dwarfed by the thousands upon thousands of squar... Read more
n/a by Billboard Junior Boys' newest effort is a winner if solely thanks to the bittersweet, catchy, funky and tastefully melodic "In the Morning," a collaboration with Mouse on Mars' Andi Toma. The du... Read more
n/a by www.prefixmag.com When a band undergoes personnel changes, rarely does it stay the same. A peripheral but integral member departs over creative differences (guitarist Dante Decaro's move from Hot Hot Heat to Wolf P... Read more
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n/a by www.villagevoice.com Despite their evident awareness of current dance music and r&b, Junior Boys' brand of synthpop can't help sounding rooted in the '80s, and with Scritti Politti and thePet Shop Boys recentl... Read more
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n/a by www.drownedinsound.com Dark corners of a plasti-sheen city, shadows moving on synthetic walls lit only by the bright lights of helmet-clad motorcyclists – hush-hush, basslines throb, hop up-down. Junior Boys make the beat... Read more
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6 by Aftonbladet Junior Boys består av Jeremy Greenspan och Matt Didemus från Kanada, ett land som på många sätt liknar Sverige. Det klimat som format Sveriges musiker att skapa blå musik fostrar således människor i Kanada till det s... Read more
6 by Metica Junior Boys består av Jeremy Greenspan och Matt Didemus från Kanada, ett land som på många sätt liknar Sverige. Det klimat som format Sveriges musiker att skapa blå musik fostrar således människor i Kanada till det s... Read more