This is the definition of modern pop. Or at least it’s what I want it to be. If not where it is right now, then where I want it to go. Electro-infused pop has become a prominent movement at the end of the decade with groups like Crystal Castles, Phoenix, Cut Copy, and Passion Pit. Barcelona’s Delorean sums that up beautifully, and if they may not do it best, they just might have the best chance to keep doing it well into the next decade. Their latest EP has that feel-good summery vibe that I’ve always taken a liking to with pop music. Summer may be over, but Ayrton Senna vaguely evokes that Endless Summer feel that listeners found appealing with the Beach Boys some 40 years prior. Delorean’s previous efforts included a sound more akin to rock acts much like the Beach Boys. It all sounded more than decent, for the most part. The latest, however, throws us a house music vibe while still maintaining the rock roots of generations past. The grooves of layered synthesizers and displaced female vocals provide a sense of freedom juxtaposed with the harder hitting guitar that keeps it all very tight. In my dream scape, sound tracked by this band, this is the music we’re all listening to well into the next decade.

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Download: Delorean – Deli

See the rest of Mikko’s top 10 albums of 2009 after the jump.

2. Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
3. Passion Pit – Manners
4. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Washed Out – Life of Leisure EP
6. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
7. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us
8. Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
9. Juan Maclean – The Future Will Come
10. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion