Junior Boys: So This Is Goodbye

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Junior Boys created only a minor stir with their debut, Last Exit, perhaps because its muted sound and supple rhythms weren't as attention-grabbing as the more jagged, rowdy, guitar-based dance bands that dominated the scene two years ago. Nevertheless, the Canadian techno-pop duo hasn't revamped much on album number two, So This Is Goodbye. Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus hold to a style that's danceable but purposefully dry, drawing on the power of electronics to pump steady and never flag. Tracks like So This Is Goodbye's opener, "Double Shadow," have an art-disco sheen and flashes of Chic guitar, but all the sonic elements weaving in and out don't make the end product any warmer. These songs are complicated robots.