My Top 10 Tracks: Flux

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We’re into the final week of The Pansentient League’s special feature where some of our favourite bands, DJs, and music personalities tell us about their Top 10 Songs. Each article includes a Spotify playlist so that you can listen in to the selection while reading the guest’s commentary.

Flux are Finnish trio Asta, Ville, and Vesa. I thought their début album Safe + Sound was so good I placed it in my Top 3 Synthpop Albums of 2009. Professionally-trained vocalist Asta has a gorgeous ethereal quality that offsets Flux’s darker synthpop sound perfectly: check out the brilliant song No More Than Alive for example. New single Claws And Teeth is due next month: one I’m really looking forward to. I asked the band for a list of their 10 favourite songs: synthmaster Ville replied with a list that includes the Stray Cats, Suede, Laughing Lennie and more. Check it out!

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1. Stray Cats — Runaway Boys

This is the first pop song I remember from my childhood and it still sounds good.

2. Suede — Animal Nitrate

Another song which brings back memories. Animal Nitrate hasn’t aged a bit in almost 20 years.

3. Leonard Cohen — First We Take Manhattan

Leonard Cohen is an unique talent and one of the coolest guys on the planet.

4. Laika — Girl Without Hands

The vocal arrangement on this one is simply amazing.

5. Depeche Mode — Everything Counts

I have to include at least one Depeche Mode song to my list. Everything Counts is my current favourite.

6. Kraftwerk — Electric Café

The lighter side of Kraftwerk.

7. Sinead O’Connor — Troy

Troy has to be the most powerful song ever. When I first heard the part where she shouts “THE PHOENIX FROM THE FLAME, I HAVE LEARNED, I WILL RISE” (3:43), I nearly crapped myself!

8. New Order — Vanishing Point

A classic tune by a classic band.

9. Massive Attack — Teardrop

Teardrop proves that less is more. I could listen to this on repeat for hours.

10. Tears For Fears — Mad World

When it comes to song-writing, Tears For Fears are in a league of their own.

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