Alphabeat - Boyfriend
[EMI]

If groundbreaking experimental music is your cup of tea, then you may as well close the door on your way out. Alphabeat don't pretend to be anything other than unashamed pop at its most fun and it's something they do very, very well. These Danish youngsters have already wowed the UK population at the festivals and dominated our radio airwaves in recent months with both 'Fascination' and '10,000 Nights', and while most bands struggle to ever follow a truly great single, Alphabeat are going for the triple.

Their no-nonsense take on pop is refreshing amidst every female-solo artist to get signed this year, or irritable indie-scruffs like The Pigeon Detectives clogging-up the charts. Despite the kind of things that simply shouldn't work in 2008 - namely those cheap-sounding 1980s keyboards and the tinny drum machines - it does work, and extremely well too. When coupled with the inoffensive vocals of lead singer Stine Bramsen and the hyperactive melody, the group are on to another attention-demanding winner.

'Boyfriend' is equally as infectious and equally as brilliant as anything they've given us already. And while it's true that we've heard songs like this before and plenty of times too - it's so infectious you won't be forgetting the single anytime soon.