“Paris” by Friendly Fires

"Paris" was the second single Friendly Fires pulled from their self-titled 2008 debut on XL, and it's a daydream of a dance track built partly on somebody else's reverie: it samples "Sun and Ice", from The Field's album From Here We Go Sublime, while the three members of Au Revoir Simone, an American indie pop act, float in on backing vocals.

The writing credit is split four ways, between Ed MacFarlane, Edward Gibson, Jack Savidge and Axel Willner. Aeroplane's remix went a step further and handed the lead vocal to Au Revoir Simone outright. NME kept coming back to it, too: 47th on its 2011 rundown of the 150 best tracks of the previous 15 years, and a year later a place on its list of the 50 most explosive choruses.

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