Last Exit (UK) (Reissue)

Rolling Stone - 3 stars out of 5 - "[S]omething fresh. LAST EXIT is elegant tech-house, sexy without being stoopid." CMJ - "LAST EXIT keeps things subtle, with long passages of slow reverb building and subsiding." Uncut - Ranked #15 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[T]ough and tender electronica at its best." Spin - "Junior Boys' creep is on the come-up." - Grade: A- The Wire - "[T]he tension between their debut's airbrushed romanticism and rigorous rhythmic science is what lodges it, uneasily, in the memory banks." Rolling Stone (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[S]omething fresh. LAST EXIT is elegant tech-house, sexy without being stoopid." Spin (p.118) - "Junior Boys' creep is on the come-up." - Grade: A- Uncut (p.75) - Ranked #15 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[T]ough and tender electronica at its best." The Wire (p.62) - "[T]he tension between their debut's airbrushed romanticism and rigorous rhythmic science is what lodges it, uneasily, in the memory banks." CMJ (p.14) - "LAST EXIT keeps things subtle, with long passages of slow reverb building and subsiding."

Canadian blog-house darlings Junior Boys are among the few heavily hyped acts of the 2000s to translate word-of-mouth web-buzz into critical and cult success. Their 2004 debut, LAST EXIT, a gorgeously crafted blend of cold wave synth-pop and post-drum & bass rhythmic science, strikes the perfect balance between elegant New Romantic style melancholia and futuristic stutter-funk la producers Timbaland and Todd Edwards. While LAST EXIT's primary modus seems to be cleverly crafted pastiche, its undeniable pleasures lie primarily in the ability to fuse the familiar and forward-looking within its scintillating arctic-swept grooves.|

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