Song Of The AM – MODESTEP – Sunlight

So I’m the kind of person who frequently gets hooked on songs. They get stuck in my head and I can’t stop singing them to myself. My only catharsis in these situations is to play the song loud and often. I like these songs, so I thought I would start sharing them in a series of posts called “Song of the AM,” or “SOTA” (see what I did there?).

My first SOTA is “Sunlight” by Modestep:

The video for this song is a few old people partying harder than I have ever imagined. I don’t care how much you might dislike dub/DnB/club/electro, you can’t hate this video. But the song is pretty great too. I can’t get it out of my head the last few days. Yes, the vocals may be a bit repetitive (by my count, it somehow manages to use 20 less words than Rihanna and Calvin Harris’ “We Found Love”), but this song somehow avoids the repetitive trap that made “We Found Love” its victim with some massive drops (my personal favorite), a clean effective tempo shift, and a great drum ‘n’ bass backbeat.

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