Synth Single Review: “Boys’’ by The Lightning Kids & Kidburn

The Lightning Kids & Kidburn’s Boys bubbles over with youthful remembrance and enthusiasm. The song opens as Darryn McHardie’s freely glistening guitar joins dreamy synth and a hard-hitting rhythm. Chord changes contribute a sun-dappled feeling as the beat erupts and Emma Ballantine’s silvered voice carries a nostalgically affecting melody. The guitar flickers with laid-back sensation while her soft vocals express memory with clarity.

The low-end pattern adds shape as the track’s luscious production deepens the emotion, Kidburn and Jonny Spalding weaving their auditory magic. Darryn McHardie’s guitar spills into a solo that transmits joy recollected, lambent with memory, while the drums pound and the vocals float with exuberant ease. The guitar drifts out with freedom and positivity before the song ends on firefly-like flickers.

The narrator confidently announces, “I love the boys, even the mistakes,” embracing every high and heartache. If she closes her eyes and counts to three, she says, “I’m 17, I’m in Los Angeles, talking to boys, the troublemakers.”

She’ll never forget the way the song’s subject looked when he gazed at her. “I don’t regret it,” she insists. She recalls being 17, dancing with all of the boys: “We were so young, our heads were headstrong.” The music was on and it was their song.