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Junior Boys: In The Morning
by Mike Diver
Electro-bleepists in the vein of upcoming tour buddies Hot Chip – ish – mixed with The Source featuring Candi Staton’s ‘You Got The Love’ (if you can’t hear the remarkable similarity within the opening minute, you’re either deaf or unbelievably daft), Junior Boys’s debut UK release is a compositionally minimal effort where formation twinkling beats are matched bar for bar with breathy pants and semi-whispered vocals laced with just a little smuttiness.
Sadly too slow for many an indie club dance floor, ‘In The Morning’_ is nevertheless gentle toe-tapping material – its lethargic pace, something that could have seen it slip into the ‘too boring to bother with’ pile, is counteracted by repeated lyrics that seem to state “I’d do ya… in the morning”. What, even before I’ve showered? You’re a couple of brave boys, Messrs Didemus and Greenspan.
After a couple of listens, what was initially nothing more than a neatly constructed ditty with overtones of late-night (channel) Five dialogue heard from another room transforms into a worthy standalone track dripping in potential. The pair’s album, So This Is Goodbye, follows on September 11. Expect to be thoroughly moved if its makers are capable of slightly speedier numbers than this.
From the archive
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this song is class.
the album is brilliant.
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I like this song a lot
and am looking forward to the album.
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I like this song but
We really could do without another song being called "In The Morning".
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if you like this
check out fujiya & miyagi
they're class as well, and maybe even better
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Unconvincing review
The lyrics are actually '...too young', not '...I'd do ya', making the above review somewhat redundant. I also completely deisagree with the smuttiness comment; Junior Boys don't, and have never done, 'smutty'.
Probably my single of the year so far.
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Sorry...
Mike, I've read a bunch of your reviews and you're pretty much always spot on.
Just not this time.
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lyrics
about the whole lyrics thing again, this review is utterly pointless because the lyrics "you're too young" (which is correct) and "i'd do ya" would send a completely different message. plus the rest of the songs lyrics wouldn't fit with a line like that.
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