Idolator

When I wrote about so-called Wonky Pop movement and its brightest prospect, the big, goofy Danish band Alphabeat, I said of my summer-jam nominee “…it hits you like a load of laundry just out of the dryer…You get the feeling that “Fascination” should be playing on a radio in a suburban garage as someone washes a car on a Saturday afternoon.” It seems I had preemptively prepared a sentence for this tournament’s very purpose; after all, what’s more summery than washing a car in your driveway out in suburbia? Alphabeat may seem a bit gawky and out of place when pitted against some of the smoother songs blaring across your neighborhood’s byways, but the fact remains that “Fascination” is a like a sunburst in song form. It’s light and breezy, but aggressively fun and entirely free of pretension. It truly embodies the relaxing-with-gusto spirit of the summer–and, best of all, it’s the perfect song to get people dancing at a pool party and/or backyard barbecue. [YouTube]