Published
Thu, Oct 22, 2015, 14:00
- The Canadian duo will drop their next LP in February 2016.
Junior Boys will release an album called Big Black Coat via City Slang on February 5th, 2016.
The new record marks the return of the electronic pop group following 2011's It's All True. In the time since, Jeremy Greenspan has dropped a couple 12-inches for Dan Snaith's Jialong label and produced Jessy Lanza's Pull My Hair Back. The group's other half, Matt Didemus, released solo tracks as Diva and launched a label called Obsession. Greenspan says: "One of the nice things about doing the solo stuff, and in particular the album with Jessy, because it did so well, was that I could stop thinking about Junior Boys as being the thing I do and start thinking about it as a thing I do. That meant I could work on Junior Boys music with the same spirit as I did when it was new."
Big Black Coat includes a previously released cover of Bobby Caldwell's 1978 soul tune "What You Won't Do For Love." The press release says the title track, streaming below, is influenced by Yellow Magic Orchestra and Plastikman. Elsewhere, ESP's "It's You" is referenced and Greenspan looks back to the mannered UK pop of 10cc and Prefab Sprout as well as the minimal Detroit techno of Dan Bell and Robert Hood.
Listen to the title track below.
Tracklist
01. You Say That
02. Over It
03. C'Mon Baby
04. Baby Give Up On It
05. M & P
06. No One's Business
07. What You Won't Do For Love
08. And It's Forever
09. Baby Don't Hurt Me
10. Love Is A Fire
11. Big Black Coat
City Slang will release Big Black Coat on February 5th, 2016.