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- Begone Dull Care
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Junior Boys
Released 2009

Sneak A Picture
07:00
946 plays

The Animator
05:07
845 plays

What It's For
06:56
680 plays

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songs

- 1
- Parallel Lines
- 06:32
- 1,991 plays

- 2
- Work
- 06:30
- 1,210 plays

- 3
- Bits And Pieces
- 04:01
- 1,195 plays

- 4
- Dull To Pause
- 04:52
- 1,637 plays

- 5
- Hazel
- 06:13
- 1,561 plays

- 6
- Sneak A Picture
- 07:00
- 946 plays

- 7
- The Animator
- 05:07
- 845 plays

- 8
- What It's For
- 06:56
- 680 plays

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album review

Taking its title and inspiration from a collaboration between animator/filmmaker Norman McLaren and jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, Begone Dull Care is, at once, the most upbeat and subtle album from Junior Boys yet. At first, these songs seem to lack distinction from one another, but the duo's painstaking attention to detail and nuance -- traits they recognized in McLaren's work -- gradually glints through, however briefly. Other than the hypnotic "Work" and the playfully geeky "Hazel," the set is punchless, more a pleasant mood album fit for casual background listening, lacking the unnerved tension that runs through the majority of Last Exit and So This Is Goodbye. The most daring aspect of the album is the title, in particular its second word. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide