1997 Kids Return

• 1 First Choice 03:13
• 2 All Yours Now 03:23
• 3 Teenage Dreams 04:08
• 4 So Good Alone 03:14
• 5 My Hero 02:40
• 6 Who Knows? 04:15
• 7 Time To Time 03:23
• 8 Welcome To My Life 02:55
• 9 Perfect Lover 02:51
• 10 The Seattle Boat 04:16
• Total Runtime 34:18

Info for 1997

Kids Return celebrate the energetic sound of the 90s indie scene.

Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Forever Melodies (2022), French indie pop duo Kids Return will be releasing their second studio album via Ekleroshock on 4 April 2025. While Forever Melodies increasingly drew on indie and psychedelic pop elements from the 70s, the two childhood friends Adrien Rozé and Clément Savoye now present a return to the raw sound of the UK's 90s indie scene with 1997.

Born in 1997, Adrien and Clément both grew up at the dawn of the new millennium, with its fantasies and disillusions. The year of their birth is also marked by a musical effervescence - the French Touch and the rise of Britpop: two major movements that would infuse their first recordings two decades later.

After “Forever Melodies” (2022), a first album drew by a French and Californian pop heritage, the duo turned their gaze across the Channel, in England. This gave birth to “1997" and its more visceral and refined compositions. In a time where everything moves fast, the duo chose to slow down, letting their sharp guitars, tense rhythms and grandiose reverbs fully unfold.

Composed and recorded between the peaks of the Pyrenees and at the iconic Studios Saint Germain, the duo shapes their new sonic universe, perfectly in tune with their era.

Kids Return

Kids Return
this is first and foremost a great friendship between Adrien Rozé and Clément Savoye. The two musicians met in Paris, at the age of 13. The duo took its name from Takeshi Kitano's eponymous film ; and like Kitano they speak about the depth contained in the false naivety of childhood, and about the evocative power of nostalgia when it blurs the line between joy and sadness.

Kids Return's sound sits somewhere between The Mamas and the Papas' Californian pop, Vladimir Cosma's orchestrations and the modesty of Joe Hisaishi's soundtracks. The French duo draws on Blur's energy and MGMT's vocal harmonies, while revisiting these Anglo-Saxon influences with the precision and delicacy of bands like Air. They compose, produce and write together in their Parisian studio or at a house in the Pyrenees using analogue gear like Moogs, Mellotron and acoustic guitar. The results are then orchestrated by a string quartet in the countryside.

This album contains no booklet.