Begone Dull Critique

Junior Boys rawk. I was meaning to post a review of their album Begone Dull Care up here, but I let it slide for too long, so now I'll just tell you that album starter "Parallel Lines" is candidate for song of the year, and that I've had daydreaming sessions with the opening jingle for "Work" several times since I first heard it.

Junior Boys - Parallel Lines (alt)
Junior Boys - Work (alt)

Bonus:
Junior Boys - Work (Prins Thomas Remix) (alt)

Discoscape

Escapist, dreamlike and evasive are some of the few attributes that have been given to Lindstrom and Prins Thomas' work. Their sound is a bit of a hybrid: it never seems to be full on Balearic, though heavily associated with the scene and it doesn't seem quite italo either, though reminiscent of that genre as well. An elaborate disco instrumental boom box, with several rhythmic sections of singular instruments playing and combining one by one, with one and then another and another for long, spatial segments, only for swooning synths to direct the changes of pace and melody into another realm. These guys have too many tools, too many directions of pace and too many well-implemented ideas to not regard them as essential dance musicians.

Lindstrom and Prins Thomas - Mighty Girl (alt)
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas - Turkish Delight (alt)

Bamboozle their myspaces here and here.