Junior Boys

When I first met Jeremy Greenspan in 1995, he was the personification of a pop cultural crisis. Shaped by Pop right down to the core of his being, steeped in Pop history, it seemed that there was only one thing he should be doing: making Pop records. But what point was there continuing to make Pop music if everything had already been done Jeremy temporarily fled Canada, looking for an escape from the nostalgic impasse of North American Pop, and he found it, initially, in the Predator-stalked cityscapes of Jungle, the UK underground's 'Sound of Now' at the time. While he was in the UK, Jeremy also became acquainted with one of Jungle's distant precursors, John Foxx's 1980 LP, Metamatic. The debut solo album from the departed singer of Ultravox felt like a lost future, its sound evoking not the swamps and deltas of blues and rock, but the underpasses, high rise apartment blocks and plazas of the contemporary urban environment. Then, suddenly, Pop jolted itself out of nostalgic rewind, and found Now again. In the US, Timbaland's hiccuping hip-hop infected the mainstream with a cartoon cubism while, in the UK, Speed Garage had mutated into a bizarrely utopian strain of Pop - characte... more...