Year In ReView: Our favorite Boston-ish songs of 2017

Camino 84 featuring Sidney Gish, “Sounds Fake But OK”

Via 30 Favorite Songs of 2017: We love summer jams. Literally can’t get enough of them, and each year we start our usual Song of the Summer! bullshit around February, when we’re still frozen in ice that’s as frigid as Boston’s locals. This year we could have waited until August and landed on the same result: Camino 84’s infectious “Sounds Fake But OK.” The Boston-based producer born Ryan Lucht teams with vocalist Sidney Gish for a glowing disco-ish number that’s warm, woven, and familiar, all while remarkably astute in its awareness of inspiration. But “Sounds Fake But OK” never allows those influential whispers to become a scream, and this summertime pop is of the sweetest variety. Camino 84 takes so many different elements of style and sound and filters them through his own dance music lens, the end result is pure original bliss. It’s a throwback track of modern pursuits and futuristic ecstasy. Celebrate summer all year round.