New Junior Boys - "Parallel Lines" (Stereogum Premiere)

Junior Boys' third album Begone Dull Care, the Canadian synth duo's followup to 2006's So This Is Goodbye, is out this Spring. We're told the title's a reference to a short film by Norman McLaren, who also influence the music contained on the record. We weren't told if the opening track "Parallel Lines," in turn, was influenced by Blondie. The six-minute song's initially icy, warms up via its lyrics: Distorted percussion and crystalline synthesizers (of a dozen different textures, striations)...

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