Future Kids - 80's Dreams

Growing up, as a teenager, I always wanted to live the 80's dream. You know how it goes: successful career, cool car, hot wife, bratty kids, awesome friends, and a general optimistic feeling that you got it made and the best is yet to come. This is due to, in no small part, listening to 80's metal and watching badass action flicks. Now that I am an adult, that aspiriration went to hell in a flaming shopping cart. Part of growing up is realizing that all those movies and shows where fictional. Hell, most of them are unrealistic. It was just a dream sold to us by tv shows and movies so we can escape the mundane lives we actually live. But you know what? Maybe I want to continue buying that dream. These 80's Dreams are so beautiful. Please, don't wake me up!

Future Kids conjure up these dreams with simple but beautiful melodies, smooth ryhtms, and a general ethereal feeling of all things wholesome and nostalgic. It almost feels as if you're floating on these sounds. It's all an innocent dream about looking to the past to build hope for the future. Maybe it's not just a dream after all. Either way, I buy into it.

The only major complaint is that it's repetitive. But you know what? That is a damned good thing. This rather reminds of 90's Burzum. The music picks up on a single theme or melody, and then repeats over and over again with slight modifications in each repitition. The goal is generate this hyptotic effect. And when the melody is just right, it is absolutely enrapturing. It ropes you in and grips your consciousness; refusing to let go until the very last note. Obviously, Future Kids is no feral Norwegian black metal. We don't get haunting chants as the embers dance over burning churches. What we do get is relaxed bicycle rides by the beach with your friends. It's a feeling as pure and innocent as your childhood memories.

If anybody ever complains about synthwave somehow dying or that there's too many non-synthwave influences deflowering their synthwave purity, shove this record right in their faces. Not only does it harken back to the early 2010's era of synthwave (particularly Timecop1983 and Miami Nights 1984), it does it wonderfully and effectively. The nostalgia vibes are pure and beatiful.