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- Summary: This is the second album for the acclaimed Canadian electronica outfit led by Jeremy Greenspan.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Electronic
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When No One Cares | |
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When no one cares and the phone never rings the nights are endless things you're like a child that cries and no one heeds the crying you're like a... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 32
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Mixed: 6 out of 32
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Negative: 1 out of 32
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Where Last Exit was indebted to the clubbier side of dance pop--with its tendency to wind songs around Dark’s close-clipped beats--So This Is Goodbye is a post-aught pop record first and foremost, an elegant, spacious collection of flash-frozen R&B and soft disco laments.
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One moment I feel like I am listening to Underworld's frantic blast combined with the Blue Nile's slowly evolving elegance, the next it could be The Pet Shop Boys' sailing in the slip stream of Depeche Mode. I can't nail down the sound beyond the fact that it's breathtaking.
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Even more engaging than their debut, So This Is Goodbye is another amazing album from Junior Boys, and one of the better releases of the year.
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So This Is Goodbye displays an impressive maturation on the part of Junior Boys leading man Jamie Greenspan.
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In the 1980s, artists such as Bronski Beat and David Sylvian used a similar sonic palette. But there's a distance to Greenspan's perfectly constructed grooves and well-modulated lyrics that falls somewhere between ironic and mournful.
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The Boys are still presenting themselves as an emotionally sensitive duo, but the smoothness pulls the urgency out of some of their problems.
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SpinGreenspan turns the pathos of 2004's Last Exit into nearly intolerable bathos, with the beats now noticeably dragging. [Oct 2006, p.98]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 26
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Mixed: 2 out of 26
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Negative: 1 out of 26
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LeeB.Oct 28, 2007
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LongIslandSep 21, 2006The best electronica album I've heard Since Kid A
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NeilerMNov 30, 2006Brand New Retro Robot Synth Funk...Album of the year!
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m.shoeSep 17, 2006cant stop listening to this.
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bobbykMar 1, 2007Syth-pop perfection. An aside: why Spin is still considered relevant, especially on Metacritic is beyond me.
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ToddWSep 27, 2006
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jasonDec 3, 2006
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