Juniore

You may not know it (or perhaps you do), but you’ve often listened to Juniore. Their neo-sixties melodies have subtly filled our landscape for the last decade. Anonymous? Not exactly. Rather they’ve discretely travelled through the airwaves of our radios, the soundtracks of our TV shows, films, commercials, the hallways of our airports and supermarkets, the trendy playlists of our nerdy friends, or recommended by some of the trend-setters we follow for our road-trips, our soirées with old friends.

It's true Juniore have travelled quite a bit and nearly all around the world. Just before the release of their second album in 2020, Un, Deux, Trois, (Le Phonographe/Outré/SONY) and just before the odd years that were soon to follow, Juniore was on the road. Opening for bands like The Dandy Warhols, Miles Kane, La Femme, Interpol, Feu!Chatterton, but also touring in small venues, large bars, festivals, cabarets, in Europe, in the UK, in America, in Australia. And this album released in February 2020 fell victim of the strange times of lockdowns and cancellations we collectively feel was all but a dream. But never mind that. In 2024, Juniore is celebrating their 10th anniversary and the release of their new album.

Trois, Deux, Un – the third album – a bit like the other side of the looking glass, was made in the new world: the world after the world before. Juniore with a prankish air already announced “La fin de la fin du monde” meaning “The End of the End of the World” in 2013 when its first songs were released. Ten years later, in 2023, a new album is made in Samy Osta's secret laboratory, somewhere in the catacombs of Paris. This album still inevitably tells feminine stories, serious stories, tales of ambivalence and motherhood, of breakups and mad love, of doubt in this indefinable “after world”. And also light stories, in negative, ready to be developed – which tell of the sea, topless girls on the beach, the horizon, the love of bowling, of silence. Always in the same tireless momentum, Juniore balances melodies with sweet and sour voices, rhythms with improbable rolls and explosive percussion, with crazy riffs, embellished with irresistible organs and elastic acoustic and electric guitars.