“I wanted to be honest about my anxieties, and a lot of my anxieties have to do with turning 30 – losing touch, losing sight of your youth. I wanted to write about that on this album,” says Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan about the electropop duo’s latest release Last to Say.

Greenspan says the inspiration behind this album stems from Orson Welles material, explaining, “I saw Orson Welles’ movies and started thinking about them. They were all about getting older. His major theme is basically people with great promise in their youth who lose it over time.”

He says that he feels that the dance music world is a very young world with an audience that demands the latest trends. “When you’re like us and have been around for 10 years, you have that feeling of getting older, and you start losing a lot of confidence. I wanted to write about that.”

Greenspan says that he wanted to be able to relate the theme of his album to the age-old fear of growing older. “I feel that its something that not only that all artists feel, but a lot of people in their lives feel – the mid-life crisis or whatever it is.” He adds, ”I think in music you have your mid-life crisis a little younger than most people do because it’s a younger people’s game.”

The album includes “Banana Ripple,” a ten-minute song that transports listeners to a place with an overwhelming sense of madness.

Junior Boys – Banana Ripple by DominoRecordCo

Greenspan describes the song, saying, “The lyrics are not very joyful. They are about losing your mind a little bit.” He wrote the song based on Welles’ interest in Howard Hughes. “Hughes encapsulates all of these fears of being really, really youthfully confident and then losing it as you get old. It’s really about the joy involved in losing your sense of control.”

The Canadian duo includes songwriter and vocalist Greenspan, who also plays keyboard and guitar, and Matt Didemus, who controls the electronic synthesizers and sequencers. Greenspan explained he doesn’t think his album fits into a particular genre of music saying, “I think it sounds like a Junior Boys record.”

The nature of their instruments affect their composing process. We use a lot of electronic equipment, synthesizers, samplers, that kind of stuff,” Greenspan says. “What we do a lot of time has more to do with wanting to use pieces of equipment than it is trying to sound like a certain genre. New ideas and new songs are generated out of fucking around with some new thing.”

Greenspan closes saying he always looks forward to the groups live performances.  He says, “Live is a different kind of feel. We’re much more energetic when we’re there. This is a really dancey tour, so basically its a party.”

The show is Friday night at One Eyed Jacks. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door.