Music Under Fire

As releases are building up on our 2009 music calendar, we continue to find more of our favorite bands of yesteryear showing up at our door again. This time the Junior Boys are on our radar with their release of their album two-years in the works, Begone Dull Care, due out on April 7th (March 24th for their fellow Canadians) on Domino Records.

The album was named after Norman McLaren's (oscar winning animator and composer) short film named 'Begone Dull Care'. McLaren made his presence known back in the 1930s - 1940's with many of his short films (one which you can see below). Keep in mind these were done at the same time World War II was happening, Jackie Robinson played baseball. Roosevelt was president and Gone With The Wind hit theatres. Its easy to see McLaren was way ahead of his time, which makes it so fitting the Junior Boys were affected so much by his work, their album had been inspired by it.

MP3: Junior Boys - In The Morning (Hot Chip Remix) (buy)
MP3: Sally Shapiro - Jackie Junior (Junior Boys Remix) (buy)

From their latest track, "Parallel Lines", the synths are done just as well as we could imagine, the glibs of sputtering appregiated keyboards makes the song flow just as their old work did. Although we still have another three months to wait, surely this album shows much promise already.

You can check out the new song "Parallel Lines" streaming over at Domino Records.

Tracklist:
1. Parallel Lines
2. Work
3. Bits And Pieces
4. Dull To Pause
5. Hazel
6. Sneak A Picture
7. The Animator
8. What It's For

Video: Norman McLaren - Dots (1940)