As they go on, it feel like Junior Boys are allowing their sound to thaw incrementally: So This Is Goodbye felt less icy than Last Exit and it makes good sense that in the press photo that accompanied our post of album standout "Parallel Lines" Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark are caught in the midst of a sunspot. It would be misleading to chara...

The production on "Parallel Lines", the lead track from the Junior Boys' forthcoming album Begone Dull Care, is leaner and drier than the bulk of So This Is Goodbye, while it's not as tricky or intricate as selected buts from Last Exit. Instead, it draws a steady, straight mid-tempo line for six and a half minutes that allows Jeremy Greenspan th...

The Junior Boys have released two albums to date, and both of the Canadian synthpop duo's full-lengths are basically immaculately gorgeous pieces of starry-eyed melancholy. This year, they'll try to make it three-for-three.The duo spent most of 2008 working on Begone Dull Care, the follow-up to 2006's So This Is Goodbye. Because Jeremy Greenspan...

Director David Mackenzie's strange coming of age tale is soundtracked by Scottish bands including Franz Ferdinand and Orange Juice, with further contributions from Domino artists including Clinic, Juana Molina, and Junior Boys.read more

SCORE!? You can say that again. The brass at Merge Records have revealed quite a few more of the folks laying covers and remixes of their favorite Merge catalog classics on subscribers to the label's 20th anniversary SCORE! box set series-- which, to recap, is due to include 14 celeb-curated comps of Merge favorites, a covers disc, a remix colle...