Pitchfork

When it comes to bodies, tell yours it's what's inside that counts. "No Kinda Man" is a brand new Junior Boys original taken from Body Language Six, the Canadian duo's addition to Berlin imprint Get Physical's mix series, and it gets physical by getting, like, contemplative-- though the pristine bass, dreamy washes, and distant echoes surrounding Jeremy Greenspan's elegant, pathos-ridden croon do hit with concrete (if downtempo) force. If So This Is Goodbye's breathy, radiant "In the Morning"-- Pitchfork's #13 track of 2006-- walked home expensively rum-and-Coke-buzzed in the, um, morning, then "No Kinda Man" wanders the moonlit streets, lost and staring at its own breath. "In my hands, in my skin, I'm alone," Greenspan murmurs against the frigid r&b-like backing. About four minutes in, the drums cut out, and synths threaten to explode like rockets ahead of an ominous, orbital instrumental outro. You can get a bit of a sense for what to expect from the track based on where Junior Boys put it in their mix. It's between Parisian DJ/producer Chloé's dubby, eerily minimal remix of German electronic band Rework's detached bass-pulser "Love Love Love Yeah" on one side, and former Junior boy Johnny Dark's current project Stereo Image with the melodic and, you know, dark electro-pop song "Dark Chapter" on the other. So, haunted and drained of love-- not an unsophisticated sensation, but one you feel in your gut anyway.

[from Body Language Six; due in the U.S. 03/11/08 on Get Physical]