The Junior Boys are back in town. The Canadian electronic pop duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus are returning in February with The Gore , a follow-up and companion album to 2022's Waiting Game that Greenspan describes as "a polarized articulation of the same thing." Born out of a period of grief and loss following the deaths of Greenspan's father and a close friend from his youth and shaped by a nostalgia for horror, sci-fi, and experimental film, The Gore was conceptualized as a deliberately noisier, messier record.

"What if you made an album like Fresh by Sly and the Family Stone, or Here, My Dear by Marvin Gaye — messy records — but with the sonic language of Pan Sonic," Green explains in a statement. "Of course, I'm not good at translating that idea into something that actually sounds like that.…