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It's Friday! It's about three o'clock! It's time to Boogie At Your Desk!

Friday afternoons need a little something. I think they need a Top Tune. Something to make you shuffle in your seat and, if possible, Boogie At Your Desk.

I'm not claiming that any track provided to enable At-Desk Boogying is one of the world's best or most profound pieces of music. It will, however, be a tune which makes me smile, and which has at some stage made me surreptitiously Boogie At My Desk.

Desks are not compulsory, of course. Feel free to boogie through your office, in your bedroom, round your lab, across your classroom, on the train - wherever you find yourself on a Friday afternoon.

If you like the track, go out and buy the album it belongs to - I'll try and recommend a suitable CD to purchase for any BAYD track.

The link to the mp3 will expire at some point in the future.

Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Future Islands - Seize a Shark [link to mp3 download expired, or YouTube link may still be active]

While browsing around my mp3 collection the other day, I ran across Future Islands. Er... who? I popped the album on. The opening track was fairly inoffensive synthy noodling. Ah well, I thought. That explains why I can't remember who they are.

Then the rest of the album happened, and I sat up and took notice. Future Islands are a synthpop band from Baltimore, Wikipedia tells me. What Wikipedia doesn't mention so much are the eager, driving basslines which remind me of Vengeance-era NMA, or the rough voice of the singer, or the overall raw edges.

I've been listening to Wave Like Home a lot since I found it. I'm not sure where I got it from. I have a vague idea that it might have been one of