Contradictions surround Sweet Tempest, Luna Kira’s and Julian Winding’s Berlin-based synth-pop duo, originally from Copenhagen. Aside from that ambiguous moniker, there’s the fact they want people to dance to songs about inequality and prejudice, and the way those songs are sometimes superficially frigid yet always warm-hearted beneath. Sweet Tempest offers plenty to reflect upon, just like their debut album Going Down Dancing which is drenched in 80s synths rewired for the 2020s, recalling artists like Lykke Li and Little Dragon with Pet Shop Boys’ literate pop and Stevie Nicks’ otherworldliness among further crucial ingredients.