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Junior Boys have transformed the song from the lonely-crowd melancholy of the
original - Frank at the bar staring into his whisky sour, happy couples partying
obliviously behind him - into a lament whispered in the wilderness, icy-breathed
into the black mirror indifference of a Great Lake at midnight. It is as
cosmically desolated as the Young Gods' version of "September Song," as arctic-
white as Miles Davis' Aura. "When No One Cares" is one of my favourite Sinatra
songs and I must have first heard it twenty years ago, but with the Junior Boys
version - which makes the catatonic stasis of the original's grief seem
positively busy - it is as if I am hearing the words for the first time.
So This Is Goodbye is a very travel sick record. It expresses what we might call
nomadalgia. Nomadalgia, the sickness of travel, would be a complement to, not
the opposite of, the sickness for home, nostalgia. The album invokes a
globalized world in which we are all tourists - at home everywhere and nowhere,
constantly connected but always alone.
9/10 on Pitchfork! Get this, it's great!! Released on Domino.
1. Double Shadow
2. The Equalizer
3. First Time
4. Count Souvenirs
5. In The Morning
6. So This Is Goodbye
7. Like A Child
8. Caught In A Wave
9. When No One Cares
10. FM
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Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye |
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