It may be bit early for “Best of 2013” lists, but it‰’s the middle of 2013 and we‰’re excited to share our most-repeated new albums from the last six months. This week, read about some of WVAU‰’s favorite records released in 2013.

A quick succession of excerpts from Kavinsky’s OutRun: “He was a teenager like any other, dreaming of his heroes and in love with a girl” … “our hero emerged from the burning wreckage — he and the car had become one” … “some say he’s just a kid who met his fate in a fiery crash but anyone fool enough to venture out onto that treacherous road should know one thing — there‰’s no turning back.”

If you are not immediately pulled in by these images, then you should re-examine your family values. But if that is also the case, know that “Nightcall,” Kavinsky’s collaboration with Lovefoxxx (Cansei de Ser Sexy) from the Drive soundtrack, is on the album.

OutRun is an exercise in the over-the-top, featuring the narrative ideas of Vincent Belorgey’s imagination. But Belorgey, just like my dad, apparently hasn’t moved on since the last time the Mets won the World Series, and the music is essentially a soundtrack to a 1986 video game. One videogame that came out in 1986 was called Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and it‰’s easy to close your eyes and exchange Kavinsky‰’s teenager-turned-car-zombie protagonist for Wimp Plasbot, as you imagine him juggling the Herculean tasks of crushing every mutated tomato at work and also keeping local pizza parlors supplied with tomato paste. The music is certainly dramatic enough.

The album is a fast car, house music odyssey built on heavy beats and guitar leads, more suited for an rock arena than a dance hall. The storyline is pretty disjointed, but it is pretty clear that it‰’s a soundtrack to something. There aren‰’t a lot of vocals here, but plenty of synthesized instruments, and the alternation of aggressive guitars and dark arpeggios imply that something sinister is happening, which probably involves a car. A fast car.

To be sure, many of the complaints aimed at Kavinsky‰’s movie and video game inspirations — being simple, overly dramatic and sort of silly — can be attributed to OutRun as well. But also just like old video games, you‰’re likely to feel a sense of nostalgia for a time you never actually experienced. And in the process, you might just forgive Kavinsky‰’s fantastic self-indulgence.