The Junior Boys are made up of Jeremy Greenspan, Johnny Dark, and Matt Didemus. Their music is pro-future pop '“ think The Pet Shop Boys 3030, only remixed by Manitoba and Fennesz (for real). Their latest record, Last Exit, on U.K. label Electrokin, has been garnering what can only be quantified as a shitload of positive, gushing prose across the globe. Jeremy and Bunk Bedouin nearly came to blows, but then pulled it out of the fire.

You sound like the past but exist in the present. Are you anti-future? I hope I don't sound like the past. Although, the past sounds more like the future than the present does. I'm as pro-future as they come.

But it could be argued that synth-pop is not new ground '“ so why are the Junior Boys revisiting it? I think it's too bad that making pop music with synthesizers has been pigeonholed into a moment in the past. I don't think we are revisiting new wave. If we were, we're going about it all wrong. We'd need a lot more vintage gear.

So, uh... how long until the backlash? I think I'm feeling it in this interview. Heh.

Okay '“ wait: Do you think computers can feel? If so, are they angrily watching us? My computer is way too slow to feel anything.

If a Roland SH-101 had to fight a Minimoog to the death in some sort of LFO-Off, who would emerge victorious? Get real! A Roland SH-101? Moog would lay on a DDT Jake ["The Snake"'” ed.] Roberts style.

Wouldn't it rule if laptop musicians put straps on their computers and rocked them Chick Corea style? That's what our live show is about, yo!

What's your compositional process? Do all three of you work together at the same time? No, the band isn't actually a three-piece '“ it's just that I worked with two other people collaborating on songs. Some of the songs I wrote with John, some with Matt and others by myself. I like working with other people. The pace isn't as good alone. You have nothing to feed off of '“ it's much faster and exciting when you write with people.

Electronic music gets the gears sometimes for not being engaging enough in a live setting '” how do you feel about this, and do you feel you've overcome it? I hope we put on a good, entertaining show. We try to make it feel live, and we've tweaked things to make everything have that sound and feel '” but we're just getting started. We're not like most 'bands' '” in fact we're not a band at all. We're two producers who wrote an album on a computer and are trying to present the illusion that we jammed the whole thing out.

Do you find working in the electronic realm more or less difficult than previous set-ups? Believe it or not, this is much more of a "traditional" set-up than we are used to. I don't really know much about being in a band.

Analog or digital? Digilog.