Kevin Bronson on August 7th, 2012

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Kisses continue to seduce with their embrace of 1980s-style synth-pop. Initially a surprising detour for Princeton’s Jesse Kivel (paired here with Zinzi Edmundson) when they surfaced in early 2010, Kisses displayed an uber-cool Euro sheen on its debut full-length “The Heart of the Nightlife.” There’s more where that came from. A sophomore album (promising “pulsing freestyle beats”) is in the works, and the first single “Funny Heartbeat” features production from Saint Etienne’s Pete Wiggs and Tim Larcombe. Detach, swoon, re-attach.

||| Download: “Funny Heartbeat”

||| Live: Kisses have an L.A. show on Sept. 27 at an as-yet-undisclosed location.