Album Review

Junior Boys – It’s All True

• 7th Jun 2011

Oh, Junior Boys…

I remember you!

Yeah, I loved In The Morning, arriving amidst a wave of neon splashed ‘Nu-Rave’, the second coming of Hot Chip and Indie’s overwhelming flirtation with dance music.

How the song breezed into my life with it’s blissed out haze and feel-good bleeps and squelches and remained a firm favourite of mine since.

And when the new album arrived in that parcel of CDs to be reviewed I thought I was in for a real treat.

But sadly there is little I can find to say in the album’s favour.

It starts as a very slow burner and I give it a little bit of time to get going, yet the album carries no sense of urgency with it, as it all floats along in a rather mundane style with no real peaks to ever lift it at all and capture my imagination.

Indeed, it it’s surely not a very good sign for an album when I return to my stereo during the fifth track to see if the CD is stuck, as each piece seems to mumble and fumble its way into the next, each sounding just as turgid and boring and repetitive as the one before it, and with a number of tracks clocking in at five or six minutes or more the effect isn’t even as exciting as frustration, instead I just lose all hope.

I don’t want to listen to this album.