A soundtrack for the dull
Junior Boys’ latest — the obscurely titled “Begone Dull Care” (Google it for a kick) — is best experienced as a complete album. I’m aware that the idea of putting songs together that form some complete whole — interlocking, interfacing, interrupting — is oh, so Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but the Boys have created a unified work without relying on CSNY-style storytelling for coherence. This is electronic music that doesn’t do what electronic music usually does. That is, even though it owes something to Daft Punk and Justice, Boards of Canada and Air, it encourages neither rhythmic...
