Andrew Shapiro - "Detectors in the Eyes". The song's sound at first seems dated, dyed in the pastel shades of late-90s trance. But within moments the cascade's everywhere - these ringing bells, these glowing synths, like a room filled with butterfly wings. Much more The Knife than Paul Oakenfold, Shapiro's made a proper song - beautiful as get-out, like Douglas Coupland's "slot machines clanging out silver dollars, rubies, and sugar candies". A clarion of kisses.

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Honey Is Cool - "Something Above the Mountains". And here, meanwhile, is The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson from the days before she was in an electropop band. Dan's written about Honey Is Cool before, and he said then that it was "simultaneously in danger and safe". The same thing goes, here: it's dazey, dreamy, hammock-slung guitar rock, but then the cymbal slams and the glitter's almost blinding; something's deeply hoped as we swing on our swings, lay in our beds, ball our fists and, wet-faced, dream.

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