Albums Of The Decade - 86. Junior Boys - Big Black Coat

86. JUNIOR BOYS - BIG BLACK COAT

Seldom do I get so vogue. But this is it. Sensitive synth-pop for the lovestruck bachelor. Junior Boys bust onto the scene in 2004 with Last Exit, dropped my fave LP so far by them in 2006 -  So This Is Goodbye, DJ'd out of a clothes shop in Reykjavik in 2008, released the uber-sensitive Begone Dull Care in 2009 and followed me around constantly in car-chases travelling at 20mph.

When they came up trumps in 2016 with Big Black Coat, from the cover I'd thought they had reinvented themselves, and they did in a detective-thriler kind of way, as less of the soft-spots are present hereon in.  There's the high-octane thrill of "What You Won't Do For Love," the brilliant seven minute techy closer of title track "Big Black Coat" and the beautiful career-high ballad of "No One's Business" to contend with - as they shot for multi-layered, techniclored, synthetic, noir-tastic diversity. AKA From Ontario with love (with shouts out to Berlin too) - (Er....better just stick with Big Black Coat  - editors note)

records of 2011. 26. Junior Boys - It's All True

26. JUNIOR BOYS - IT'S ALL TRUE

They drop album number four and the pressure is off because the media has come to expect sophsticated sophisto-pop from this Canadian duo. If you're not familiar, the acts name is apt because they employ a wholesome and cultivated take on pop music. It makes me want to wear a really nice coat because the sound is still quite wintry.

The great thing about the Junior Boys is that each album holds up really well. Only one or two tracks of theirs have truly blown my mind - "FM" and "In The Morning" are two of my favourite pop songs of all time - but still all four LP's are really concentrated instead of being watered down with piss like most pop music.

And. And, it's hardly drivetime. It's suave and confident without being too cocksure. With each album the production sounds even more iridescent, maybe because of technology improving since their 2004 debut "Last Exit" but that's not for me to say. What I do say is let's have another 6 of these beauties and then we can say the Junior Boys will have released 10 great albums.

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