Baby Dayliner

My roommate is friends with Ethan Marunas, the one man force behind "80's retroist" Baby Dayliner, and she has boasted about his stuff forever. Since she has populated my iTunes with his songs I've unintentionally got into them (playing right after the B-52's, hers too) and I now regret the times I turned down offers to see him play at Mercury Lounge. Others describe this much better than I would so read his press or bio at Brassland:

Brooklyn's Baby Dayliner is upbeat, joyous, earnest, and romantic, all at once. He combines Leonard Cohen's songcraft, the electronic pulse of New Order, and the jiggy performance style of Al Green. He's also been compared to Serge Gainsbourg, David Bowie, James Brown, Tom Jones, The Smiths, Daft Punk, and Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields -- influences which he gratefully cites alongside the classical and jazz of his formal musical training, and the street sounds he absorbed while growing up in New York City.

These two songs represent more of his Euro/electro influences.

Baby Dayliner - "Oh Oh" and "Raid!"