http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AA3002/qid%3D1124118592/sr%3D1-6/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F6/002-4506223-3591203
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― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link
http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=22RKZC0LJLMPC0AKNJDCH7I9OJ
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― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
...*groan*
― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
-- cozen (coze...), June 27th, 2004.
not 'last exit', I meant 'birthday'.
Haha, I pulled this album out to compare with the new one and it was driving me crazy trying to remember where this sound was from.
― splates (splates), Sunday, 11 June 2006 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
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― jed_, Saturday, 3 March 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
The "itunes session" version of "under the sun" might be my favourite thing by the boys ever. it is its own Studio remix! total disco shoegaze, even moreso than maurice fulton's ost & kjex remix. tim, get on this.
― jermainetwo, Thursday, 19 July 2007 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the album has been re-released with all of that itunes session and all the remixes on a bonus disc. must get!
― haitch, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
There are three or four live Junior Boys sessions floating around as podcasts. The latest I've heard is their sonar set at http://www.youarehear.co.uk/ although I believe KEXP's podcast had them as well.
― mh, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Listening to this Johnny Dark EP (: ) !) it is a total shame that he is not in the band anymore. He is really lacking on the second album IMHO.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 21 July 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish it was Jeremy Greenspan, not the San Serac dude singing on Johnny Dark's new project, album soon apparently.
Under the Sun session vers. kills yes. It needs remixing into a 15 minute balearic epic though!
― Alex xy, Saturday, 21 July 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for posting that link!
― I know, right?, Saturday, 21 July 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
San Serac is like an excercise in 'what if David Bowie couldn't sing'? Maybe it will grow on me.
― Alex xy, Saturday, 21 July 2007 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
He is really lacking on the second album IMHO
oh really?
― o-ess, Saturday, 21 July 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck you.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 21 July 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
second album is better than the first and all the better for not having JD in the band.
― jed_, Saturday, 21 July 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
No it isn't! Its kind of obvious in comparison. The great thing about Last Exit was how it tore OMD down to just the sparest bleeps and tickles of sound. Dark's production on the songs I imagine are mainly him (such as Bellona, High Come Down and When I'm Not Around) is the way he gently fucks with the remains, rubbing up against splashes of Garage and House and Seventies AOR. They hold the songs up in a strange, wobbly fashion.
Most of what makes Junior Boys so beautiful is the way they maroon genre, they appropriate all these little elements of pop music into something really darkly personal and beautiful. Its the way they inform the songs with all these bits of radio pop music and then rub it all out until its just smudged fragments, so endlessly suggestive and delicately precarious.
Bellona is my favourite track, the 2-step helium voice and Greenspan almost duetting, him gently pleading against her android-like gibberish. Its really genuinely moving. The title track's sparseness and the way the shuddering beats echo off into the oceans of emptiness manages to even suggest the radio in the car being turned off, and the subsequent silence...
There are really strong tracks that aren't Dark affiliated, Teach Me How To Fight has some of the best lyrics on the album and the synth line bursts out from the rhythm section with the right amount of sensuously mysterious melancholy.
The second album is gorgeous, but it seems to straight ahead, too certain of itself. Too comfortable.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 21 July 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
you're insane.
― o-ess, Sunday, 22 July 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree re: bellona
― cutty, Sunday, 22 July 2007 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
You agree that I'm insane with re: bellona?
― I know, right?, Sunday, 22 July 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
no, i agree w you
― cutty, Sunday, 22 July 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
jesus
"Bellona" is great but it's not 2-step, it's kind of a forerunner for the first few tracks on the second album. it's always reminded me or jurgen paape's lighter moments a bit.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 July 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't like most of what i heard from the 2nd album at all but i'll probably buy the deluxe version for some of the remixes and that itunes under the sun thing.
― babedad, Sunday, 22 July 2007 06:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The Tensnake mix is the only good one.
OTM.
― jaymc, Sunday, 22 July 2007 08:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't go bonkers in 2003, but last year's followup was really, really great. Looking forward to more great electropop coming up next time around.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 22 July 2007 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
No, sometimes I get genuinely confused when there's so many people talking, I don't know who's reacting to who. Y'know?
― I know, right?, Sunday, 22 July 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link
no one thinks the hot chip remix is any good? really?
― vadx, Sunday, 22 July 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
any mention of this yet?
― haitch, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 05:09 (sixteen years ago) link