2009-01-17

Mark your calendar

According to popular online music magazine Pitch-fork, the Junior Boys are releasing a new album March 24! Yay!

Here's the Oscar Peterson-scored video the title, Begone Dull Care, refers to:



Great one. I saw this on the Movie Network a couple times without knowing what it was. It drives me nuts that the cable guide info shows the movies but not the shorts that usually run in-between.

Last year I took out a VHS (yeah, VHS) copy of Norman McLaren's works from the Toronto Public Library. I highly recommend checking that out. It's a real piece of artistry and "Neighbours" is classic Canadian film. Of course, you'll have to scrap the Blu-ray and dig up the archaic tape technology, but hey, it'll be worth it.

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Here's a non-album Junior Boys track which is basically a mash of their tunes "So This Is Goodbye" and "Under the Sun". Hopefully the forthcoming album will be as inventive and full of creative energy as the album's namesake, rather than a strong recapitulation of their previous moods and motifs. Not that I won't be buying it the day it comes out or anything.

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