Movies, TV, and music are all about nostalgia these days. And it’s easy to see why. In 2026, it’s very difficult to be human. We turn to the comfort art of our youth to cope with the present and find our happy place. With their third album, Love on a High Floor, indie duo Bunny X inject an ’80s shimmer into delicious pop music that calls back to the days of wandering the mall with your friends, three-way calling, sticker books, blow-up furniture, and the invigoration of no responsibilities.
“You know it’s such a rush, every time we touch,” the band — currently comprised of Jenny Bates and Abigail Gordon, a founding member who joined forces with ex-bandmate Mary Hanley in 2012 — sing in a standout cut, “After Hours.” Bright neon synths cast a hypnotic aura, not unlike the lingering lights when the local mall is just about to close. A disembodied voice crashes out from a nearby speaker, alerting groups of teens that it’s time to hit the open road. Squeaky sneakers and the thrill of the latest cassette tape purchases fuel an intoxication that just doesn’t happen anymore. “Take Me Away” continues that late-night buzz into speed-racing down backroads, the night air kissing your cheeks. “Let’s disappear tonight and lose our sense of time,” Bunny X howls through a proverbial bullhorn. The world is their oyster, and nothing is calling them home (at least, not these days…)
Another fresh track, “Business Trip,” pounds with alarming yearning in the vein of 1990’s Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, the adrenaline Christina Applegate’s character Sue Ellen felt when meeting her crush Bryan (Josh Charles) at the Clown Dog. The slender, slithering synths give a lush backdrop to Gordon’s and Bates’ seductive smirks. “I’ll just be waiting here tonight,” they vow.
From the opening track, “Starting Dreams,” a collaboration with Don Dellpiero, Bunny X turns up the gummy ’80s pop on high (pun intended) and races onto the dance floor. Songs like “True Confession,” with LA Dreams, and the electrifying “Even If We Don’t Talk” feel like lightning bolts shocking the skeletal system. They’re long-lost cuts you’d find on an unlabeled mixtape you once recorded while high on a friend’s rooftop. The melodies liberate you as much as the overwhelming camaraderie. You know it won’t last forever, so you drink in the moment. “We made love on a high floor for all the world to see,” the duo reminisces in the title track. “We didn’t care at all / The way you smiled at me, you lit up my whole world.”
Bunny X wistfully sings about their youth in a way that transports the listener back to their own teenage years. Sharp images of drinking a 40 in a Subway parking lot and walking underneath blurry amber streetlights have never felt so profound. Love on a High Floor is not only Bunny X’s story, but it manages to feel deeply universal.
Love on a High Floor is out now via Aztec Records.
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