The last we saw of our teenage girl gang (in our Lost Records Bloom & Rage – Tape 1 review), things had taken a turn for the worse. After putting on a punk concert in the local dive bar's car park – an outpouring of unashamed anger and teen angst met with disgruntled bar patrons – one of the girls, Kat, coughs up blood and gets rushed to the hospital. Swann, Autumn, and Nora are left in the empty lot, shaken by the discovery of what their friend has been hiding from them. Just a moment ago the four had been unstoppable, but this revelation changes everything.
Just like Life is Strange, the series that put Don't Nod on the map, Lost Records is split into episodes, and Tape 2 is the fallout of the first tape's crescendo. As each tape's title suggests, Tape 1 was the Bloom of a newfound friendship, and Tape 2 brings the Rage. It's a little rough around the edges, but the conclusion of Lost Records is everything I wanted it to be: full of heartbreak, gay kissing, dreamy pop ballads, and supernatural scares. As a finale to Don't Nod's new teen drama series, it's magnificent. Break out the waterproof mascara for this one, girlies.
