Junior Boys - It's All True

one of these days i'm going to "get" begone dull care. i'm revisiting it's all true right now and love it more than ever?

and the jessy lanza record from two years ago kinda quietly grew in my estimation and i think it's stunning now

BDG makes more sense if you pretend it starts with "Bits and Pieces" imo

the jessy lanza record was one of my favorites from 2013 and remains so, especially approaching winter

banana ripple makes me want to get a neck tattoo and punch a cop

SAME

I think I've seen junior boys play more often than any band (excepting friends' bands)

just found out last week they're playing here in february and tickets went on sale at the end of october and it's sold out boo hoo

I snagged tix for April already, it'll be my first time!

any ILMers heard this yet? handful of people on last.fm are listening to it, so figure some copies are out there. curious what to expect.

i feel like i'm the only person who's highly anticipating this new album, someone please tell me i'm wrong

You're wrong.

i really fooled myself into thinking this would be a return to form but it made me lose interest in this band all over again

excited to pick this record up two years later and suddenly realize how much i like it

Yeah, Josh you are wrong. I love the three singles so far and have very high hopes for the album.

i'm enjoying the record.

i'm enjoying the record.

― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, January 27, 2016 1:54 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

.......do you have it

"big black coat" and "over it" just sound better and better the more i listen to them

banana ripple is one of the best things they or basically anyone has ever done so i am super psyched for new shit, i love these dudes even when they are kinda boring

^^^^^

banana ripple makes me want to get a neck tattoo and punch a cop

― adam, Friday, December 11, 2015 9:24 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is my favorite ilx post

BDG makes more sense if you pretend it starts with "Bits and Pieces" imo

btw this worked

yesss

I love the super mellow last couple of tracks, also "Sneak a Picture" might be my fave of theirs period

'the animator' was the real slow burner from that record

if they play either of those when I see them in April I may die

relevant to our interests - new Jessy Lanza album, again produced by Greenspan

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=33125

co-produced with her, I mean.

I did the same with Begone Dull Care when I first got it (starting with Bits & Pieces) but I have grown to love Parallel Lines too. Work just totally kills the mood. Everything after that is great. It's such an underrated album. I guess following two absolute masterpieces was always going to be tough for them. I think it's good enough to follow two 10/10s with an 8.

I really liked It's All True when it came out but the last time I played it I only really got a lot out of Itchy Fingers, ep, The Reservoir and Banana Ripple. Hoping the new one is more consistent and has better staying power.

i might see these guys in, i think, April in Southern California. hope they are good live.

Oh hi: http://www.npr.org/2016/01/27/464564269/first-listen-junior-boys-big-black-coat

AAAAAAAAAA

I missed these guys so much!

unearthing all sorts of feels i got from the first two but not the last two - this is fucking great!

whoa "C'mon Baby" gets v close to shoegaze near the end

live, with much more guitar than they used on record, they would end first-album tracks like 'under the sun' w/ big shoegazey buildups

oh man yeah this sounds good

I'm gonna have to stop my listen to go to bed but it sounds p good, "Baby Give Up On It" is a bit boilerplate tho

I'll listen to the junior boys when that dude stops singing. Good gravy.

well this is really good

even the flimsier songs have some element that totally alters the environment

like "baby give up on it" which sounds unremarkable at first and then turns into a post-disco/minimal techno hybrid

"baby give up on it" is the exact point where i flipped from oh-good-more-junior-boys-this-is-nice to fuck yes

.......do you have it

― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, January 27, 2016 10:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was sent a promo of it, it feels like it makes a triangle with Our Love and Pull My Hair Back

i even like the wacky "what you won't do for love" cover now

those handclaps tho

trying again with this and ugh still not grabbing me...it sounds so samey, none of the melodies or songs are distinguishing themselves from each other apart from the ones that are slightly more boring. keep hoping they'll rediscover the magic of the first two albums but this isn't it

you sound so samey

new record is like if you took the inimitable aura of arthur russell's <i>world of echo</i> to the dancefloor so it wins for me

i think greenspan's vocals are the most incidental they've ever been to the sound of the record but i loooooove the sound

their new live show totally rocked so if you don't have tickets yet, hustle hustle

Seeing 'em in April!

I feel like the hit ratio has been p much the same for the last three albums? Love the first few tracks but the interstitial ones, plus "M&P" and "Love Is A Fire," kinda bore me. Totally came around on "Baby Don't Give Up On It," though.

pitchfork says it has something to do with detroit techno? i don't think i believe that