Kisses

Add Date: November 16 

Artist: Kisses 

Album: The Heart of the Nightlife 

Label: This Is Music 

Genre: Pop, Dance 

Comments: Kisses is L.A. duo Jesse Kivel and his girlfriend Zinzi Edmundson, and The Heart of the Nightlife is, surprisingly, their debut album. From the promoter: "Recorded in his garage over the course of a month, Heart of the Nightlife, like all the great albums, manages to sound happy and sad at the same time. To these ears, its fusion of disco, New Wave guitars and balearic beats is as evocative of West Coast ennui as peak period Prince". Throw in Kivel's Jens Lekman-ian voice and you get a charmingly fresh sound that still somehow manages to take you to the faraway times when disco balls were the name of the game. Give tracks 3, 2 and 7 a listen.