Alexis Taylor & Mike Simonetti (UK)

Now here’s two great tastes that taste great together. Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and Mike Simonetti—the journeyman producer and musician who founded the legendary Troubleman Unlimited and Italians Do It Better labels and has been making stellar tunes as one-half of Pale Blue—have teamed up for an absolutely cracking single release that finds both of them charting new territory in their storied careers. Alongside the cresting original ballad “Perfect Kiss” is a transcendent cover of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “I See a Darkness” that reimagines the devastating classic as a floor-filling slice of euphoria, showcasing what happens when two such singular talents put their heads together.