Kim Keukeleire joins us from Brussels for this week’s The Animation That Changed Me, a series in which leading filmmakers and artists discuss one work of animation that deeply influenced them.
It’s hard to love the ’80s more than Junior Boys do. From its austere beeps and dollar-store snares to its “new-romantic” title, Begone Dull Care wears its retro genre label proudly. Fortunately, the ...
Electronica can be a debilitating enterprise over time. The genre, at its best, sprinkles diverse, intricately detailed elements among urgent beats that demand body movement; however, as their careers ...
“A re-imagining of the original 1949 NFB short by Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart, and the Oscar Peterson Trio. In 2015, armed with 4 abstract paintings, 4 audio wave forms, 3 types of noise, ...
Canadian electronic pop duo Junior Boys, aka Matt Didemus, left, and Jeremy Greenspan, return with their third full length album, Begone Dull Care. (JuniorBoys) Parallel Lines builds with a lovely ...
In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid ...
Matt Didemus, foreground, and Jeremy Greenspan make up the Canadian electro-pop group Junior Boys. Their new album is entitled Begone Dull Care. ((Joe Dilworth/Canadian Press)) Like any other genre, ...
Beware inserting the word dull in the title of your third album. These tracks by singer Jeremy Greenspan and programmer Matt Didemus reveal acute detailing: cresting arpeggios on “Work,” pedal-steel ...
Living on two continents often spells trouble for a band, but not for Hamilton’s Junior Boys who have created one of the most ambitious records in their young career. Flying back and forth between ...