Real Life Is No Cool

Norwegian space-disco master Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has solidified his legend by recording blissed-out instrumental monoliths like the 20-minute epics on Where You Go I Go Too. But Lindstrøm has also released a pair of great singles, 2003's "Music (In My Mind)" and 2007's "Let's Practise", with a singer named Solale. Both of those tracks took Lindstrøm's perpetual wooziness to a slightly funkier place, and both ended up sounding somehow more disco than just about anything else the man had done. Solale has a confident, flirty voice, which brought a sort of tangible humanity to Lindstrøm's tracks that hadn't been there before.