Juno
http://www.desotorecords.com

styles: post-punk, indie rock
others: Burning Airlines, Dismemberment Plan

This is the Way it Goes & Goes
DeSoto 1999
rating: 7.7
reviewer: mr p

This is the Way it Goes & Goes consists of 10 genre-hopping songs that remind you how simple guitar lines, ideas, and structures can often be more effective than high-tech equipment and studio tricks. Other than a few minute studio effects and the guitars through reverb/delay and distortion pedals, Juno uses the normal rock tools to build layers upon layers of sounds injected into extremely drawn-out, climactic songs. They can make you sway your head like an angel at one point but later make you run it through a brick wall. Their songs create a mood from the very first strum of the guitar and take you through various emotions, while you just sit there and take it with no complaints. "Leave a Clean Camp and a Dead Fire" is a lengthy song at the center of the album, while the rest of the songs surrounding vary between post-punk to inspiring epics. "Venus on 9th Street" is one of the highlights of the album because of its moody demeanor and crawling guitar lines. There is nothing especially groundbreaking or revolutionary here, just great song crafting and musicianship that oddly makes the album sound surprisingly fresh.

1. The Great Salt Lake / Into the Lavender Crevices of Evening the Otters Have Been Pushed
2. Rodeo Programmers
3. The Young Influentials
4. All Your Friends Are Comedians
5. Leave a Clean Camp and a Dead Fire
6. January Arms
7. Venus on 9th Street
8. A Listening Ear
9. Is Anybody Listening?
10. The Sea Locked Like Lead