Daylight

Showing that age is no barrier to creative hunger, two journeymen musicians came together in the mid-2020s to become one of the great electropop duos of all time. Sean Dickson, of The Soup Dragons and The High Fidelity, and indie-cabaret crooner David McAlmont have both led extraordinary lives creatively and otherwise, never fitting into any box, which has kept both working hard and not resting on laurels — and clearly they recognised this in each other. This is their second LP together — the third, Twilight following just six months later — and it’s a gorgeous, utterly individualist but instantly accessible exploration of struggle and hope, which ends on the most extraordinary one-two punch of “Celebrate” and “The Show,” a finale that’ll have you reeling.