I’d not come across Fox Stevenson before, and so Enemy Brain Entertainment Suite – which is his second album – was a real find at the start of the year. Like Illiterate Light’s Sunburned, the fact it has stayed in rotation for 11 months is testament to its merits. Indeed, a List placing was never in doubt from the moment I heard it. Mixing poppy early 2000s emo rock with urgent (but still poppy) drum and bass beats, Stevenson has crafted a sound that is unique and vibrant. Musically, Enemy Brain Entertainment Suite is an upbeat affair that’s pretty much guaranteed to get your wiggle on. Instead of matching that with similarly sunny lyrics, though, Stevenson instead delivers a dark account of personal demons and the horrors of modern living as a young adult. It’s a bold juxtaposition that turns Enemy Brain Entertainment Suite from throwaway dancey fun into something much richer. There are a few weaker tracks here and there on the record (closer ‘Bring a Coat’, for one, slams the breaks on a little too hard), which have ultimately cost it a place in the top ten. But tracks like the rousing ‘Victory Over Truth’ and the flawless ‘Get Through’ amount to some of the best dance pop I’ve heard in years.