Stream: Rostam, ‘These Kids We Knew’

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Rostam (Photo by Olivia Bee)

Rostam’s first single of 2021, “These Kids We Knew,” is a gently urgent rallying cry to mind the future of the planet — and a song that the singer-songwriter-producer says came to him “in a fever-dream” last March when he was recovering from COVID-19.

Accompanied by Jon Race’s animated video, the song is concise, with a sense of purpose. Halfway through the track, Rostam’s vocals exit and in comes a delectable guitar lead that carries the melody to the song’s close. Clocking in at a mere 2 1/2 minutes, “These Kids We Knew” covers an incredible amount of ground and delivers an important message.

“I was thinking of three generations while I was writing this song,” Rostam says. “There’s a generation of adults who don’t see global warming as their problem because they think they won’t be impacted by it. Then there’s a generation younger than mine, who will certainly have to deal with what is happening. In the song, I have a fantasy of the younger generation arresting the adults and putting them on trial in the streets of cities around the world. Those are the ‘sidewalk courts’ that I sing about in the song.”

“These Kids We Knew” is the follow up to the 2020 single, “Unfold You.”

||| Watch: The video for “These Kids we Knew”

||| Also: Watch the video for “Unfold You”