Just Can’ Get Enough – Black Eyed Peas
Released in 2011, Just Can't Get Enough portrays a brief emotional high that exists between two worlds
La Ritournelle – Sébastien Tellier
La Ritournelle sets a mood that requests but commands attention in the gentle, slow rise of the opening chords
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Nightcall – Kavinsky
Like an engine resurrected in a midnight garage, a synth growl emerges from the asphalt, slow and steady
Recto Verso – Paradis
The record begins like day breaking through gauze curtains, with Instantané unfolding its chords in languid spirals
Nur Geträumt – Nena
The opening synths flink like a late-night sign coming up. With clipped accuracy
Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears
The synth glides almost weightless, nearly carried on the breath of a dream. Published in 1985 on Songs from the Big Chair
China Girl – David Bowie
Far from the glossy brilliance of her 1983 rebirth, China Girl started life. First penned in Berlin in 1977 during Bowie's collaboration with Iggy Pop
1901 – Phoenix
Early in 2009, when 1901 showed up, it felt as though someone had captured the sense of a rooftop summer and sent it revolving via a synthesizer
West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
The pulse is immediate. A creeping synth bass, a dash of urban claustrophobia, then Neil Tennant's voice slithers in like a narrator viewing it all from a steamed-up car window