You know those songs that somehow end up on your computer, though you don’t know where they came from originally or why you downloaded them? This is one of them—a sunkissed retro-pop gem drenched in vintage keyboards and a lovely little bass line. It’s got what I believe the kids call “groove.”

CQ is a Roman Coppola movie about a new new wave filmmaker who is convinced to replace the director on a ramshackle sci-fi B-movie. Hijinks, of course, ensue. Having not seen it, all I can think is it could be some ungodly fusion of Irma Vep and Alphaville, but that’s neither here nor there; we’re here, after all, for the music. Mellow performed much of the soundtrack, which is just one of many parallels people have drawn between the band and comrades-in-arms Air, who did the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides.

Apparently, because they’re both French and play (or used to play) an updated variant of 60s French pop, they are somehow very similar. I don’t hear it from this particular song, though; this certainly ain’t your father’s Moon Safari. For one, you can dance to this; you’re going to look pretty stupid trying to dance to “Sexy Boy.” For another, Air has pretensions beyond being a space lounge act; since that first album, that particular band has moved in a decidedly auteur direction of their own, their music acting as a sort of retro-futuristic dialogue (take the video for “Radio #1,” with its crazy malfunctioning domestic couple-cum-robots). Mellow, on the other hand, appear to have no such overriding agenda; their easy grooves are blissfully free of such weightier concerns.

So, Mellow. Just like the name says.