Junior Private Detective have been together for over 4 years playing regularly in Portland, OR and around the Pacific Northwest. They have toured as far east as Chicago and as far south as San Diego. Their first full length album "Square" was released in 2003 and the follow up album "Erase" was released in 2006. Both can be purchased at www.cdbaby.com
Some Press: (full articles can be read at www.juniorprivatedetective.com)
A spawn of the current Portland music micro-culture, Erase should propel them to be one of the future favorites to come from the Pacific Northwest I-5 megalopolis.
- Three Imaginary Girls
The band can be rhythmically unpredictable but still loves sugar-sweet melodies
- The Idaho Statesman
Apart from having one of the coolest band names ever, locals Junior Private Detective also happen to totally rock. They totally pop, too. They totally prog. They manage to do quite a lot very ambitiously, but in a way that seems simplistic by virtue of how breezily it all comes together.
- Portland Mercury
Square recalls everything you loved about (early) Stereolab -- keys, jazz-like rhythms, unexpected tempo shifts -- while retaining a sense of the group's Northwestern roots.
- Splendid Magazine
Think the Pixies meet early 10,000 Maniacs and Yes, with some Fugazi and Beat Happening thrown in for good measure. If it sounds like a stretch, it is, but the band is talented enough and driven enough to make it work.
- Oregon Music Guide
Junior Private Detective has a poppy, jerky sound, with hilariously straight-faced lyrics about romantic Nintendo gaming and other extra-funny contributions to the art of imposing profundity and sentimentality on the seemingly ridiculous or mundane.
- The Oregonian
It's by some small miracle that Junior Private Detective's debut, Square, is this disciplined and original and, at times, breathtaking.
- The Willamette Week
What do you get when you mix the precision and odd time changes of math rock with the melody and energy of pure pop? A unique and entertaining listen.
- South of Mainstream
