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Europeans have a way with the dancefloor, and these favorite videos of the year so far bring that danceably to life.

The Dirty Disco: "Sista"

This London electro crew with backup vocals by The Retrosexuals looks like Dead or Alive the morning after the rave. And their manic dance-rock is punchy enough to sharpen your scissors, sista.

 

From his forthcoming U.S. debut Pieces, the London-based Swede sounds like John Mayer if he wasn’t so worried about his bluesman cred and gave into his inner emo brat, on this bleached-out cityscape of a clip.

 

A Manchester duo that looks like Tears for Fears but sounds like Pet Shop Boys, Theo Hutchcraft, on vocals, and Adam Anderson, on synthesizer, channel the 80’s with high romantic drama in this black-and-white clip featuring a woman shaving one lovely leg in slo-mo.