Junior Senior D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat CD

Additional personnel includes: Thomas Troelsen (vocals, keyboards, bass, drums); Helena Josefsson, Ditte Bringoe (vocals); Yebo (synthesizer, drums, percussion, background vocals).

Picking up the cudgel of dance music with a mish-mash of influences pioneered by '90s acts like Deee-Lite and perpetuated by contemporaries the Cooler Kids, Junior Senior add some flash to an otherwise colorless Summer 2003. With their debut D-D-DON'T STOP THE BEAT, this Danish duo packs a half-hour's worth of kitschy New Wave synthesizers, flashy surf guitar, and thumping funk beats into delightful pieces of ear candy like the Eurodisco "Move Your Feet," psychedelic nugget "Boy Meets Girl," and the garage-rock gender-bending anthem "Chicks and Dicks." Throughout these 13 songs, the tempo borders on the amphetamine-fueled, with chugging guitar and double-time beats framing the simple yet infectious "Good Girl, Bad Boy," White Stripes-like "White Trash," and aptly titled "Rhythm Bandits." About the only time the pace somewhat slows down is on "Shake Me Baby," with its neat mix of subtle string arrangements and mutated Motown beat, and the double-entendre-laced "Shake Your Coconuts" with its hazy overtones of Urban Dance Squad. Despite having more musical personalities than Sybil, Junior Senior's debut possesses equal doses of cheekiness and an unstoppable joie de vivre.

Parental Advisory (Enhanced)

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.107) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"
Rolling Stone (9/4/03, p.136) - 3 stars out of 5 - "The debut album from Danish duo Junior Senior is an H-bomb of outlandish dance punk..."
Entertainment Weekly (8/8/03, p.71) - "...Junior is one of the few working producers who prefers Ringo's beats to Timbaland's, but he's onto something....This record is as catchy as old AM-radio pop..." - Rating: A-
CMJ (6/9/03, p.6) - "...[A] mixture of upbeat dance grooves and sugary guitar rock..."
CMJ (6/9/03, p.6) - "...[A] mixture of upbeat dance grooves and sugary guitar rock...
Mojo (Publisher) (5/03, p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...There's lots of weird, warped rock'n'roll licks, hints of Sandy Nelson and bubblegum punk..."