You catch the mid-tempo beat as the night fades to black and the lights on the dance floor fall in saturated reds and blues, your body slipping into a supple, hip-shaking groove, ass grinding lightly against the anonymous partner moving at your back, then not so lightly as he draws you closer, and suddenly his breath is on your neck and in your ear and you can smell the musk of invitation on his skin. The music has loosened you up, made you comfortable in your sensuality, so maybe you’ll accept. Or perhaps you’ll realize it’s the hypnotizing effect of the Junior Boys’ indietronica, a heady fusion of electro-pop, R&B, disco and UK garage buoyed by the falsetto caress of singer Jeremy Greenspan, his tender whispery tone seeming to encourage the mating dance. [Photo by Joe Dilworth]
“I definitely don’t do that on purpose,” Greenspan laughed after I asked him about his music’s inherent sexiness when I interviewed him last week. “I’ve always wanted my music to feel like pop songs, and the easiest way to make a pop song is to put it within the context of love or relationships or sex or whatever. But most of the themes of our music and most of the lyrics have very little to do with sex.”
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2009.