Style: synthwave
Primary Emotions/Themes: A surprisingly competent entry into the synthwave genre intermixed with healthy doses of video game references and music
Thoughts: There was a point in my musical journey that I was picking up just about every synthwave album I could find. I came across Watch Out for Snakes through a random recommendation on bandcamp, and I picked up Scars without even listening to it. When I finally did get around to putting this on the turntable for the first time I was pleasantly surprised.
The way that Scars' approaches the music in it is by fusing synthwave with video game music... specifically chip tunes... Sega Genesis (Megadrive) chip tunes. So you get synthwave drums and melodies, but those melodies are played with instruments that sound like they are lifted straight off a Sega sound chip... and the music is even better than that description makes it sound.
It's gritty, it's menacing, and it's really damn good. I am still shocked at how much I like this album. More than once I've thought about selling it, so I'll put it on the turntable and I'm blown away by how good it is. So next time I think about selling this album, I can read back to this entry and stop myself even before I start.
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