Alphabeat Essentials

Alphabeat Essentials

Alphabeat burst through the Danish charts and onto the world stage in 2007, but you could be forgiven for mistaking them for emissaries of a different decade. Part of a proud Scandinavian tradition of pop as a global lingua franca, they collage a tonne of influences into a singular style. Drop virtually any song—try, say, “Satisfaction”— into a centrifuge and it might yield a mixture of ’70s disco, ’80s synth-pop and ’90s Eurodance. What separates them from many of their Nordic peers is a fondness for the swinging drumbeats of ’60s soul and the peppery bite of power pop and ’90s indie rock. The result is a dizzy, hook-filled celebration of the best of times.

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