Eat Your Own Ears presents
JUNIOR BOYS
KODE9
TO MY BOY
Thursday 16th November
Doors 7.30pm
Cargo, 83 Rivington St, London, EC2A 3AY Tel 020 7739 3440
Advance tickets ?8.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com Tel: 08701 201 149 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden,
London Tel: 0207 240 0105
http://www.juniorboys.net
www.dominorecordco.com www.kode9.com www.myspace.com/tomyboy
Unique canadian electronic pop digital disco outfit JUNIOR BOYS promote
their new album ‘so this goodbye’ out at the end of September on Domino
with a live set that sees them pay homage to kraftwerk, scritti
politti, and ‘violator’-era depeche mode as they blend synth-pop with a
melodic slice of electro and live drums.
‘…suggest talk talk produced by timbaland…. junior boys’ spectral
vision of electronic pop is an understated, unpredictable delight. THE
GUARDIAN
‘junior boys blenderize the long-underground sound of electro with the
overground sound of me decade bands such as talk talk — the end result
is something fresh.’ ROLLING STONE
‘its heights eclipse virtually all other music this year.’ PITCHFORK 8.9/10
“both ‘birthday’ and ‘last exit’ pair quaint synthpop arpeggios with
irregular rhythms more suggestive of contemporary r&b; the array of
wiry analog tones highlights greenspan’s
shadowy voice as though illuminating him in profile.” THE WIRE
Dubstep garage pioneer KODE9 plays a live set as he mixes digital
bleeps and sonorous basslines, rasta-style meditative vocals with
broken step beats…
“…low bass pulse stilling your heartbeat into hibernating half-speed
while pads flicker like the green flash of dusk, a swathe of spaceship
hum over stop-start syncopations” The Wire
“Irresistably fresh, improbably deep and radiantly warm, the sonic
vapour trails froms a dystopian soundscape, as electronic music targets
the next millenium..” IDJ
“As deep as Rhythm & Sound, as funky as Moodyman and as filthy as
grime?s fiercest, this is head stunningly fresh and shrouded in
claustrophobic atmospheric pressure. Sounding like a dervish ritual for
existential dreads, this is death disco for deviant dub fiends? Urb
[USA]
TO MY BOY a futurist pop guitar and computer duo from liverpool and
chesterfield deliver songs rich in melody with a well-developed
pop-sensibility while retaining an edgy underground feel. TO MY BOY
seem to have drawn their inspiration from just about every corner of
pop counterculture, sounding both familiar and totally fresh, as they
bring something a bit special to the discount-disco low-fi scene while
charming the new-new wave rock/pop crowd.