"Clearest Blue," the best song on Chvrches' ridiculously good sophomore album Every Open Eye, doesn't have the structure of a standard pop song. There's no chorus, but the chorus isn't the focal point. Instead the arrangement dances with you, building up tension and then pulling back again, until all the synths and drums are layered up so heavily that all the song can do is explode. And then, holy fuck does it ever explode. The whole song is structured like a Skrillex track or something, everything building up to this one glorious and climactic drop. But the drop isn't some gut-kicking bass throb. It's a huge, surging, monumental two-finger keyboard riff, a not-too-distant cousin of the riff from Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough." Every time I hear that song -- even when I'm just sitting at my desk typing, which is most of the time -- I immediately go into fist-pumping dumb-out mode when that riff kicks in. It's a physical response. I can't help myself. And I can't remember a synthpop song did that to me. You know the drum break from New Order's "Blue Monday," the tsst tsst tsst tsst BOOM part? Probably the greatest moment of any sythpop song ever recorded? This is like that. I'm not saying it's as great as that. But it's like that. Can you visualize what's going to happen when festival audiences get to hear that riff? Can't you just fucking see it?