Comments on: Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:54:43 +0000

Could be I guess though perhaps a playful dealing with such a situation…

By: mp

mp — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:44:44 +0000

Junior Boys are from Canada and to have your product sold in Quebec it’s required by law to have bilingual packaging. My assumption in the bilingual packaging is to prevent having to do two versions for separate markets, and therefore not tongue in cheek.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:18:19 +0000

I believe the French titles somehow reference the National Film Board of Canada, from which the album title was inspired.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:07:39 +0000

Agree entirely! Coloured squares are a nice visual ‘easter egg’.

By: John Blonde

John Blonde — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:32:40 +0000

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 . . .

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:27:49 +0000

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.

By: Sebastien Hayez

Sebastien Hayez — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:28:19 +0000

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