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Arjan Interviews Junior Senior

August 17, 2007

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Junior Senior are two shiny happy people.

The quirky Danish duo serves up a blend of feel-good pop, hip hop and funk, which is injected with a heavy dose of positivity that is truly infectious. The group just released their new EP, titled “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye," in the U.S. this week. The 7-song EP will be packaged as a companion disc with a limited edition release of their second album “Hey Hey My My Yo Yo" on Rykodisc/Crunchy Frog.

Junior (aka Jesper Mortensen) and Senior (aka Jeppe Laursen) collaborated with notable guest artists such as Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson of the B-52’s, Le Tigre, and legendary Motown girl group the Velvelettes, as well as Spooner Oldham, the Alabama born organist (and Neil Young keyboardist) behind classics like “When a Man Loves a Woman,” and “Mustang Sally.” The album was produced by Junior, co-produced by Thomas Troelsen, and mixed by David Leonard in Nashville.

Time to have a chat with the openly-gay Jeppe Laursen to talk about the album and more. (Jeppe is pictured on the right in the photo.)

"Hey Hey My My Yo Yo" was formally released in Europe and Japan back in 2005. Why has the U.S. release taken so long?
It has definitely taken a lot longer than we anticipated. We're on an indie label in Denmark and we license the music in other countries, which can be a really long process. It is important to find labels that believe in you and are willing to push you. It seems that a lot of big labels are in so much stress right now that some of the enthusiasm is lacking. We're happy to be on Rykodisc in America. It was worth the wait.

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Comments

Mike wrote:

Nice interview. I love that Move Your Feet song they had a few years ago.

posted at August 21, 2007 02:00 PM

jfbiii wrote:

Maybe you haven't heard, but the web is stretchy. It's possible to put an entire article, even one with as many words and pictures as this one, on ONE PAGE! It's pretty sad that this interview is broken up into five pages so that you can collect 2 more cents from advertisers. I feel ripped off. for even bothering to read the first page before I realized I would have to click 5 more times to get the whole article a paragraph at a time.

posted at August 21, 2007 08:54 PM

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