#17
Junior Boys: “You’ll Improve Me”
[from It’s All True / Domino] 

Because of my extreme affinity for the Junior Boys’ “Parallel Lines” (#1 on my 2009 list of songs) and the rest of Begone Dull Care, I was terrified to delve into It’s All True. If you’ve ever felt truly protective of a song and what it represents to you, you’ll understand what I mean. I was afraid of new music from Junior Boys simply because I just didn’t want it to be anything less than “Parallel Lines”. I’d built them up so much in my head because of that one particular song that I wouldn’t have been able to stand it if they had faltered.

Four months went by where I was in complete and total possession of It’s All True. Not one listen. Not even five seconds. Then out of sheer inspiration from a combination of the film Drive and being in Southern California, I threw on the record as I drove around the desert one afternoon. Three songs in, all of my panic melted away and “You’ll Improve Me” filled all of the air inside of the car and was all I thought about for six lovely minutes. So, the moral of this story is…go see Drive? I don’t know. Fuck, I love this song.