JUNIOR BOYS - So This Is Goodbye Review

For a while now there's been an orthodoxy developing around the music created in the early 1980s. The commonly held belief is that the post-punk scratchy funk is where the real innovation took place; that the sound of The Gang of Four and The Fire Engines broke new ground....full text In mid 2004 the Junior Boys released a debut album that casually sneaked under the radar before slowburning its way towards such acclaim that it snuggled cosily into many "best of the year" lists come December. That album was called 'Last Exit' and it was a luminous thing of beauty, charmingly unsure of itself, but quite rightly deserving of all the critical praise that was eventually heaped upon it....full text When Hamilton, Ontario, duo Junior Boys released their debut album, Last Exit, in 2004, they became the vanguard of electro-pop. Lauded as an unprecedented meeting of Timbaland’s cosmic funk and David Sylvian’s synth elegance by more than a few critics, Junior Boys - whose only warning shots were a couple of EPs on the fledgling KIN label - were one of the year’s best zero-to-hero stories. Riding their success to a record deal with indie powerhouse Domino Records, Junior Boys now offer up their second helping, So This Is Goodbye....full text