hypersongs

OutRun

His debut album, a concept record about the 1986 crash and the zombie's return, with "Nightcall" as track eight.
Kavinsky, 2013

OutRun is built on the Testarossa story and on 1980s video games, Miami Vice and Dario Argento; critics compared it to the 1986 B-movie The Wraith. Kavinsky, SebastiAn and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (track 8) produced; SebastiAn mixed all of it. Paul Hahn speaks on tracks 1 and 13, Raw Man plays guitars, A-Trak recorded track six, and Havoc and Tyson guest. The lead single was "ProtoVision", with a video by Marcus Herring (December 2012). It reached 2 in France, 5 on the US Dance/Electronic chart, 8 on the UK dance chart, 156 on the Billboard 200 and 159 in the UK, and went gold in France. Metacritic scored it 75: NME, PopMatters and Spin gave 8 out of 10, Mixmag four stars out of five, Pitchfork 6.3. "Odd Look" appeared in a 2012 BMW i advertisement, and "Roadgame" in Mercedes advertisements and as the music when Manchester City players arrive at home matches.

Track listing

  1. Prelude1:54
  2. Blizzard3:27
  3. ProtoVision3:26
  4. Odd Look4:49
  5. Rampage2:55
  6. Suburbia3:28
  7. Testarossa Autodrive3:37
  8. Nightcall4:18
  9. Deadcruiser3:33
  10. Grand Canyon3:12
  11. First Blood3:04
  12. Roadgame3:44
  13. Endless2:59

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Reborn (2022)

Sources

  1. OutRun (album), Wikipedia