Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
Author: Colin | Published: 28/12/09
| Artist |
Junior Boys |
| Title |
Begone Dull Care |
| Label |
Domino |
| Year |
2009 |
| Designer |
Trevor Jackson |
| Music |
Subtle pop masterpiece |
| Desktop |
Download image (soon) |
| Notes |
Junior Boys’ third album has been criminally overlooked in the end of year charts I’ve read – though I’ve included it in my own review of the year. The subtle playfulness of the group’s music is reflected in Trevor Jackson’s design. The dual language structure – English in one pane, French in the other – is surely intended to be a little tongue in cheek. After all, there’s no French sung on the album itself. I don’t know how the CD version is handled, but I love the eight panes of colour on the inside of the outer sleeve (please forgive the goatse aspect of that last image…) |
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The french titles are quite strange.
track 3 must be : “de bric et de broc” or miettes et morceaux
4 : faire une pause
1 : jeter un coup d’oeil à l’image
4 : à quoi ça sert
but it’s sounds quite surealistic for a french guy like me
Hello Sebastien, yes I read more than once that the translations were rather clunky, but I’m afraid I don’t speak French. I’d wager that this is deliberate – it would certainly make for a nicely ironic counterpoint to the elegant symmetry of the design.
Thanks for posting this. The album was almost ignored in the year end charts. Pitchfork had a runners-up list for albums that didn’t make their top 50 and this was on there. Please. This was easily one of the best albums of ’09 and probably Junior Boys best so far. The artwork is very well done too. I had no idea about the colored squares inside! I’m checking my copy right now . . .
Agree entirely! Coloured squares are a nice visual ‘easter egg’.
I believe the French titles somehow reference the National Film Board of Canada, from which the album title was inspired.