the junior boys

BUT

you can get a free demo if you write them at

juniorboys_ca@hotmail.com

thanks to gear!

new single hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aic8dgxZls

Why's it called "Night Walk" if it's all on a train? It should be called "Night Train."

fuck, this is so good

Take your complaints to the folks at Global Television in the 1980s.

Excited for the new album. I’ve been on a major back catalogue binge for the past week and have belatedly concluded that It’s All True may be the equal of Last Exit, and the new track is very pretty in a way that reminds me a bit of “Playtime”.

Wonder if Domino will repress their back catalog. The vinyl versions are ridiculously expensive for what I thought would have been fairly large pressing runs. Maybe Domino didn't do that many copies in the early 00s. Would have to spend between $75-$200 per album to get them now in the US.

Had the exact same thought after reading the label write-up and hearing Night Walk: we’re gettin a whole album of Playtimes, maybe a dash of Three Words. I can’t wait for this.

https://cityslang.com/releases/junior-boys-waiting-game

"performs saxophone throughout" in the review linked above makes me much less excited about this album. Saxophone is a honking, irritating instrument. Hopefully the sax on this album is very subdued and drowned in effects. There's no instrument I hate more than saxophone, even bagpipes would be preferable. I'm aware every reply below is going to say how stupid I am and how great XYZ is on sax.

Anyone know the best place in the States to order the LP?

looks like rough trade US has it for preorder: https://roughtrade.com/us/junior-boys/waiting-game/lp-plus

Thanks, grabbed a copy. Still listen to Last Exit quite a bit. The one song they've released so far has a similar vibe, so i'm excited.

Wonder if Domino will repress their back catalog. The vinyl versions are ridiculously expensive for what I thought would have been fairly large pressing runs. Maybe Domino didn't do that many copies in the early 00s. Would have to spend between $75-$200 per album to get them now in the US.

I don't know if anything in the early 00s had a particularly large run. I remember seeing a bunch of stuff in the vinyl section of the local shop just sat for years which is now worth like $100+. I'm guessing a lot of it was bought up several years ago.

Ordering from RT now. Anywhere but Amazon for me. Thanks!

xp

pretty certain I bought my vinyl copy of “Last Exit” 5 or so years after it’s 2004 pressing.

there are non-obscure albums that came out LAST YEAR that go for $100

it’s wild

Cheapest vinyl copies from Discogs.com (prices include shipping to the US)

Last Exit - $92 (Greece)
So This Is.. - $177 (US)
Begone Dull Care...$80 (US)
It's All True... $41 (Japan)
Big Black Coat... $26 (Poland)

It's All True is only $28 if you order the European press from Croatia... act now!

I was so lucky - picked up Last Exit for $12 in 2014, then in 2019 I found Begone Dull Care for $3!!

Both at record shops BTW

uh yeah i'm thinkin we're back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6P6AjK60rE

under the sun underneath the moon

new album The Gore. but not til feb 2027 whyyyyy

oh man, this is terrific

that is a certified banger

stoked for the gore

Is that a Will Bankhead album cover?

Yeah, I like this. I am ready for a new Junior Boys. I kind of hate how long in advance people are releasing tracks nowadays, but I guess it does allow big parts of the album to slowly sink in over time. I've definitely found that I tend to prefer the songs released in advanced after the full album drops.

I've heard the full advance a little while back. Good listen.

I find the mood of this song to be pretty dark. Is there a consistent mood throughout?

Hmm. I wouldn't say dark, if anything maybe it felt a little mellow? Reflective of age, perhaps.

That's interesting. Maybe it's just the mood I'm in, but I found Under the Moon to be pretty relentless and discordant.

*Underneath

Yeah this is almost a banger, much more so than anything on The Waiting Game, but it preserves that album’s more tenuous relationship to songcraft than their preceding material

Waiting Game is an incredible album but I didn't want them to make another one like it

I don’t think they’ve ever really repeated themselves, though the shifts in direction between album 2 and 5 are perhaps a bit subtler than from 1 to 2 or with The Waiting Game.

It’s All True is probably the album that felt most like a consolidation of past manoeuvres, but it’s *such* a consolidation that it transcends any possible sense of repetition.

I agree with the above in that (for me) The Waiting Game felt like a very specific and deliberate one-off from them, even at the time it came out.

Dangerous to extrapolate from just one track, but if this turns out to be their techno album, I am preemptively seated.