Maybe my tipping point?

I never, ever used to like Arcade Fire. Over-rated, trippy rubbish, I thought. Even as their last album, Neon Bible, received drooling accolades, I was actually pretty skeptical, and remained so after considering the album in its entirety. Could their next album The Suburbs be the one to change my mind? Maybe. Sounds suspiciously like U2 to me, but, this time, the whole album might be solid through and through.

Monarchy

It's official that I am way too into disco sounds. My guess is as good as yours when my predilection started, but I'm not sure if it's going away.

Anyway, I've been hearing this track from a London band called Monarchy. Their debut album is due in August. That's pretty much everything I can dig up about these guys. The album will be worth getting, if the first single is any indication (which, of course, it often isn't.)

They've got a bit of a Hot Chip sound going on, but in my opinion more danceable. They may have a richer sound, as this track, Love Get Out Of My Way, seems to suggest, but I'd hate to jump the gun on the whole album.

Miike Snow

Miike Snow isn't actually a person's name; the group consists of Andrew Wyatt, with the production team Bloodshy & Avant, two Swedish producers.

In terms of production, they've done super-slick numbers for Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Kelis, and won a Grammy for Britney Spears' Toxic.

If you (justly so) don't like the sound of those names, don't worry. Miike Snow is very much a side project, where the talents of both producers really shines through.
They've been putting out new stuff that, I think, bests most of what was on their eponymous first album.

Here's a number I'm really digging recently, called Rabbit. It's a release from the deluxe re-release of their first album. Actually, I prefer the Stuart Price version (and it has a crazy video), so I'll put that version first: