Stroh "80" – "about being caught doing the nasty with your girlfriend's pal in the aftermath of a drug party on the floor of a local occultist", according to frontman Sam Smith – is great. Based on a Velvets-simple chord sequence that Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs, to name but one of their peers, would kill for, it features handclaps and feedback, and elements of disco and discord. Smith's voice is quite Steve Harley – Dylan at his most cynical put through a louche glam filter – and the music is equal parts Chinnichap and CBGBs.

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