American Analog Set combine the warm hum of vintage keyboards with hushed, emotionally restrained vocals, sparse guitars, and a compact rhythm section to create music that's inspired by sounds of the past, such as 1970s German rock and the late-'80s American underground, while sounding futuristic in a home-cooked way. In their early days, the group synced the guitars with the keys in such a way that albums like 1996's The Fun of Watching Fireworks were lumped in with the space rock movement. They later shifted to a more song-based, guitar-forward approach (on 2003's Promise of Love, for example) before splitting. The band returned in 2023 with For Forever, an album that picked up where they left off decades earlier.