The Runaway Five

 A love of loud guitars, square wave synth leads, and impressive video game collections brought two nerds together in the city of Chicago to play "sci-fi": a retro synthesis of chiptune, synth rock, and dance punk with a nostalgic sense of pop -- the kind of music someone in an 80s movie might have imagined people would listen to in the future. Wearing labcoats, the high-energy duo sings songs about robots, dragons in spacesuits, and endangered species. The Runaway Five were born in the desert, but live in the future of twenty years ago.

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