“Tonite” by LCD Soundsystem

"Tonite" was the second single from American Dream, LCD Soundsystem's fourth album, in 2017, and it's a two-man job. Al Doyle and James Murphy wrote it and played every note between them: Doyle on guitar, keyboards and electronic drums, and working the vocoder; Murphy on synthesizers, drums and percussion, singing, producing and mixing it himself. They went deep into the gear closet for it, an ARP Odyssey, a Jupiter 4, an EMS Synthi AKS and a Roland SH-5 among the synths, with a Synare electronic kit ticking away.

What comes out is a sleek, restless hybrid, part acid house and part dance-punk, with synth-pop gloss and an electro-disco pulse. It arrived with a video on the day of release, reached 33 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart, and won Best Dance Recording at the 60th Grammys, the band's first Grammy.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.