Junior Boys / So This Is Goodbye
Album: | So This Is Goodbye | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Junior Boys | Added: | Nov 2006 | |
Label: | Domino |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2007-03-04 | Pull Date: | 2007-05-06 | Charts: | Electronic |
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Week Ending: | May 6 | Apr 29 | Apr 22 | Apr 15 | Apr 8 | Apr 1 | Mar 25 | Mar 18 |
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Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Jan 17, 2023: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
The Equalizer |
4. | Jan 25, 2016: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Like A Child |
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2. | Nov 18, 2022: | The Great British Breakfast
In The Morning |
5. | Dec 10, 2015: | Audible Chocolate (12/3)
So This Is Goodbye |
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3. | Mar 07, 2016: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
In The Morning |
6. | Nov 12, 2015: | Audible Chocolate (11/12)
So This Is Goodbye |
Album Review
Jon Barnes
Reviewed 2007-02-20
Reviewed 2007-02-20
Junior Boys deliver their usual chilled out, sugary electro-pop. If music were food the Junior Boys would be a watermelon popsicle. This album doesn’t have the consistency that their last album did (Last Exit), but there are plenty of things to like. There is more funk here, and a heavy dose of electro ballads if that is your thing. I do miss the R&B feel and skittery drum programming that made Last Exit so unique, but this album has a major home run “Caught In A Wave.” Check it out!
Best tracks: 8, 2, 3, 7
Track 1: FCC. There’s a word that sounds like the F-bomb in there a couple times. Mediocre tune anyway.
*Track 2: Bumpy upbeat tune with genius broken drums and catchy synth riffs.
Resembles the best moments on Junior Boys’ previous album.
*Track 3: Straight up chillout. Very tasteful and dreamy, I can imagine hearing this
tune next summer while watching the sun go down at Café del Mar.
Track 4: I’ve never been a fan of electronic tunes in 3/4 meter, but judge for yourself
Track 5: Supposedly the first single, but it sounds too clumsy and the “sha la la”-style
vocal refrains are annoying.
Track 6: Chunky and crisp 4x4 tune, but the crooning vocal melody makes it soundlike Sinatra on synthetic tablets. Blah.
*Track 7: Great tune. Killer bleepy synth riff, tasteful vocals (unlike the last track!), and the drums really make it move. Another chip off the Last Exit block
**Track 8: TUNE ALERT!! Crossover potential, too. This could work just as well on the beach as it could in a dark room with flashing lights. Slow but has the moody
tension to work in a heaving club at 5 in the morning. PLAY PLAY PLAY!
Track 9: Ambient, dreamy excursion into the land where songs go to die. Ugh.
Track 10: Another downtempo tune, nothing special.
Best tracks: 8, 2, 3, 7
Track 1: FCC. There’s a word that sounds like the F-bomb in there a couple times. Mediocre tune anyway.
*Track 2: Bumpy upbeat tune with genius broken drums and catchy synth riffs.
Resembles the best moments on Junior Boys’ previous album.
*Track 3: Straight up chillout. Very tasteful and dreamy, I can imagine hearing this
tune next summer while watching the sun go down at Café del Mar.
Track 4: I’ve never been a fan of electronic tunes in 3/4 meter, but judge for yourself
Track 5: Supposedly the first single, but it sounds too clumsy and the “sha la la”-style
vocal refrains are annoying.
Track 6: Chunky and crisp 4x4 tune, but the crooning vocal melody makes it soundlike Sinatra on synthetic tablets. Blah.
*Track 7: Great tune. Killer bleepy synth riff, tasteful vocals (unlike the last track!), and the drums really make it move. Another chip off the Last Exit block
**Track 8: TUNE ALERT!! Crossover potential, too. This could work just as well on the beach as it could in a dark room with flashing lights. Slow but has the moody
tension to work in a heaving club at 5 in the morning. PLAY PLAY PLAY!
Track 9: Ambient, dreamy excursion into the land where songs go to die. Ugh.
Track 10: Another downtempo tune, nothing special.
Track Listing
1. | Double Shadow | 6. | So This Is Goodbye | |||
2. | The Equalizer | 7. | Like A Child | |||
3. | First Time | 8. | Caught In A Wave | |||
4. | Count Souvenirs | 9. | When No One Cares | |||
5. | In The Morning | 10. | Fm |