Boise Weekly

Junius w/Silver Snakes, The Deadlight Effect & Sir Kay

The Venue

Sat. 3/9/13
Show: 7:30 PM
$10.00
All ages
[Venue Details]

Junius

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Boston MA

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  • revolvermagazine
  • aquariusrecords
  • altpress
  • Lost At Sea
  • pitchfork
  • Pop Matters
  • exclaim

Junius - Reports From the Threshold of Death (from revolvermagazine)

3.5/5 Like its predecessor, 2009's acclaimed The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist, the second full-length from Boston-based space-rock maestros Junius is lush and melodic, soaring and dreamlike. Through a narcotic progression of oceanic chords, pulsing bass lines, and hypnotic keyboard swells, the band occasionally invokes a less dense My Bloody Valentine while vocalist-guitarist Joseph Martinez conjures a dulcet wail that vaguely recalls that of the Deftones' Chino Moreno. It's a genuinely moving s......

JUNIUS - Reports From The Threshold Of Death (from aquariusrecords)

We first heard Boston post metal heavies on a recent split with fellow post metallers Rosetta, and were surprised by just how UNmetal these guys were, they're still heavy, but more like Katatonia or 'Radiohead' era Cave In, bombastic and epic, majestic and yeah, heavy, but clean vocals, soaring and dramatic (right down to some hazy dreamy female backup vox), the songs proggy and sprawling, unfurling brooding dramatic slow build verses, that build to massive crushing choruses, but never getting f......

Junius - Split EP (from altpress)

Two of the most high-concept bands in post-rock come together for an engaging split release, each managing to retain unique identities in the process. Boston's Junius based their 2009 full-length, The Martyrdom Of A Catastrophist, on the astronomical catastrophe theories of controversial scholar Immanuel Velikovsky. In terms of music and mood, they pick up where they left off with "A Dark Day With Night." It's eight minutes of sweeping, majestic post-rock with spacey flourishes, dark-wave anguis......

Junius - Junius (from Lost At Sea)

Brooding and melodic are two descriptors that I like to use when elaborating on music that I term post-goth. Post-goth, is largely indebted to but is not just the inherent offshoot of goth, a genre shaped by bands such as Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Mission U.K. The reason for post-goth's distinction being that it contains stylistic impulses denoting more recent syntheses of sound. Equal parts post-alternative, avant-gaze, and post rock, along with the ban......

Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist (from pitchfork)

Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-born Jewish scientist who believed that long ago Earth had suffered several near-catastrophic collisions with Venus and Mars. His alternate vision of the universe, which he laid out in the controversial 1950 bestseller Worlds In Collision, reads suspiciously like the plot to Stargate: ancient mythology, astrology, and astrophysics woven together into the kind of vividly apocalyptic swirl that attracts cults of believers. Velikovsky's theories, unfortunately for ......

Junius - The Martyrdom of the Catastrophist (from Pop Matters)

Concept albums, as history shows, either fulfill their intellectual promise (and premise) with excellence or they miss the mark with half-cocked ideas and only the loosest of connections. So taking up that particular gauntlet is a gambit, one the bearded gentlemen of Junius have done with supreme confidence. The ten songs of their sophomore album The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist create a narrative that revolves around the controversial scholar Immanuel Velikovsky, interpolating his philosophy in......

Junius - Reports from the Threshold of Death (from exclaim)

Boston, MA-based space rockers Junius have produced an album of contrasting and contradictory textures for their second full-length. On one hand, Reports from the Threshold of Death is anchored in heaviness. The drumming clashes and clangs, while the bass lines are often as heavy as iron ore. On the other hand, there's a spacey lightness to the vocals. Joseph Martinez's voice is as rich and sumptuous in tone as it is un-tethered in style. The choral vocal elements also have a free-flying quality......