Unlikely Summer Jams 2007: The Go Find

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Now that summer has hit New York in all its sweaty humid glory, I have immediately started to look for this year's summer jams. Not only the hits popping loud from every corner deli or Humm-ousine, but songs that can define a season and become inextricably enwrapped with its memories: In short, a soundtrack for summer '07. In my next few posts, I'll suggest a few tracks that either through their sheer rhythmic heat, or their poptastic choruses should make their way onto your picnic boomboxes or roadtripping iPods.

The likeliest options are obviously Rihanna's twirly emo-r'n'b hit Umbrella, or Lil' Mama's feisty minimalist handclapfest Lip Gloss (and they surely deserve their own posts), but my first suggestion is a little more farfetched. In fact, it is fetched all the way from my exotic, and sometimes sunny motherland, Belgium.

Dieter Sermeus' The Go Find has on their latest album Stars On The Wall blossomed from a one-bedroom electronic act into an sprawling six-person band. Their sound still sparkles with electronic flourishes, but is now underscored with more organic drum and bass sounds inspired by Fleetwood Mac's uber-summer jam album Rumors.

The Go Find's 25 Years is one of those songs that sound best when heading off into sunrise or sunset. With warmer synthy bridges and a lovely, nostalgic chorus, the song deals with the homes and people you left behind, the longing to return, and the memories that live on regardless.

There are a few videos and another great song up at The Tripwire, but I'll leave you with just one more album-track. Sounding like a sadder cross between Dusseldorf's proudest The Notwist and Sub Pop indie-hitmailers The Postal Service, Beautiful Night takes you on a short summer's night walk. Though it feels like only a fragment of a song, it captures the shy beauty of the rest of Stars On The Wall, thoughtfully contrasting Beach Boysy melancholia with squelchy, small computer sounds.