• Tracklist Dezember:

Friendly Friends - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
Pop songs are full of promises, most propped up by little more than a few chords and a nice melody. UK phenoms Friendly Fires go one step further with "Paris": Their "I promise" gets a boost from the very contemporary go-getter mantra that immediately follows, "I'm on it." And this remix does them one better by involving an actual Aeroplane-- certainly one way to get to Paris-- and, well, pretty much eliminating the Friendly Fires guys from the equation all together by relinquishing their verse parts to the original track's chorus girls Au Revoir Simone (hey that's French!). Even if all this fails to convince you that Friendly Fires will one day live with you in Paris and command the stars to shine on your behalf, at least you got a sweet, beat-accented eight-minute ride out of the deal.

Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat
Following in the tradition of the finest meta-pop, "Stuck on Repeat" is an addictive groove about being addicted to the groove...and addicted to love. Romantic obsession is a broken record in the sleek disco world populated by Victoria Hesketh (aka Little Boots) and producer Joe Goddard of Hot Chip-- a sentiment that can surely be understood by anybody who ever spent way too much time refreshing a crush's Facebook page over and over again. But real-life codependence isn't anywhere near as sexy as the blood-pumping throb (with sleighbell accents!) that anchors this immaculately constructed song, or the way that Hesketh's light-headed vocals swim around in the heavenly, beat-free middle section before being sucked back into the vortex. If it was, we'd all be doomed.