Junior Boys' Third Album In March

Junior Boys will release Begone Dull Care, the follow-up to 2006's So This Is Goodbye, on March 24 through Domino Records.

The title of Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus' third full-length album was inspired by Canadian animator and electronic composer Norman McLaren. "Hazel" will be Begone Dull Care's first single.

The Hamilton, Ont. duo pulled a Postal Service to complete the album, with Greenspan working in Junior Boys' new Hamilton studio and the recently married Didemus telecommuting from his new home in Berlin, Germany.

Greenspan originally began Junior Boys with Johnny Dark, who was replaced by Didemaus before the release of 2004's Last Exit debut. So This Is Goodbye was shortlisted for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize.

Greenspan has since worked with Caribou (a.k.a Dan Snaith) on his 2008 Polaris Music Prize-winning Andorra, remixed a Carl Craig song and contributed vocals to Morgan Geist's Double Night Time.

Junior Boys will tour Europe at the beginning of March and will return home at the end of that month to play shows throughout North America in support of Begone Dull Care. They'll have Max Tundra with them, but dates have yet to be announced. Here's where you can see them for now:

March 6 Berlin, Germany @ Lido
March 7 Cologne, Germany @ Studio 672
March 8 Zurich, Switzerland @ Stall 6
March 10 Brussels, Belgium @ L'Ancienne Belgique
March 11 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
March 12 London, England @ La Scala
March 13 Manchester, England @ Academy 2
March 14 Dublin, Ireland @ O2 Academy Dublin

Here's what's on Begone Dull Care:

"Parallel Lines"
"Work"
"Bits And Pieces"
"Dull To Pause"
"Hazel"
"Sneak A Picture"
"The Animator"
"What It's For"