Kyle & The Super Best Friends “ksbf”

Located at the mid-album of Kyle & The Super Best Friends debut release The Death of Kyle & The Super Best Friends, “ksbf” marks a change of perspective. The album follows Kyle and other survivors journey in a post-apocalyptic future in search of how the world fell apart. Although what they seek didn’t set them free, something else did. The album explores the theme of friendship, loyalty, and basic human emotions.

It’s not hard to notice that “ksbf” is the first letters from the band’s name. Storming from emotional soundscapes, the longing and seek for friends, and anguish dystopia, “ksbf” finally sees hope and color returns to the post-apocalyptic world. “ksbf” presents a transition of energy, sonic palette in one song. The track opens with a guitar-washed surreal soundscapes, as if standing at the edge of the world. Immersive, hypnotic. The mood-filled soundscape doesn’t require many words to articulate the storytelling.

Into the last minute of the track, the shifting soundscape concentrates into something more tangible. A path emerges from chaos, the rhythmic guitar seems to find a footing in the new world as the lyrics call out to “the super best friends.” There, something really powerful and exciting happened.

Following “ksbf,” “Find A Way” feels more determined. Unlike the sparse and introspective soundscapes that themselves in a distance, every thought and emotions in the second half of the album are clearer and closer, and this shift all happened in a single track. “ksbf” is undoubtedly an important pivotal point in the album. It’s simply fascinating how the shift that happened in the track affects the rest of the album.