OutRun (studio album) by Kavinsky

Outrun is an influential album with a few treasures like "first blood" but ultimately not strong to move its self into greatness.

Some decent beats here, and Nightcall is amazing but other than that, quite repetitive and a slightly boring listen after a while.

First. :)

Before hitting my teens I used to listen to almost exclusively Jean Michel Jarre's music (and before that Italian schlagers). My introduction to Kavinsky's music came about when I wanted to update my contempt for hipsters' music taste by looking up what kinda music is behind all these weird band (or "band") names I've never even heard that tour these hispter-only music festivals. When I hit Kavinsky's - you guessed it - Nightcall I had to stop. "Hmmm.. there must be at least one person in charge of booking bands that recognizes what good music stands for." It took me a while to actually listen this album all the way through, since on a quick glance it seemed to be a one-off fluke with no way of knowing how much of Nightcall was written by a fellow musician. After taking the plunge I must say I like a lot what this guy is doing. Apart from "Suburbia" this really is a great album. If that makes me a hipster, then so be it: I don't mind one bit.