Style: synthwave
Primary Emotions/Themes: Pure nostalgia
Thoughts: Nostalgia has become a central theme of my blog it seems. So many of the albums I have in my collection are there because I had a positive experience with them in my youth. Kids is not one of those albums, but it acts like it is.
The music on Kids is undoubtedly synthwave, and with that comes an inherit feeling of nostalgia if you grew up in the 1980's. The thing that Kids does differently though is that it doesn't just evoke feelings of nostalgia through the inherit nature of the music, it goes way beyond that. I can't explain it completely but this evokes strong feelings from my childhood.
Maybe it's the samples of news clips regarding arcades from the time period. Maybe it's the more relaxed nature of the music and how it borrows from said arcade music. Maybe it's the way that Tyle Lyle soothes me with the lyrics to the album.... maybe it's everything... maybe it's nothing. I don't know, but god damn this album is enough to make me cry.
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