This sounds like a lost Saturday morning cartoon soundtrack and that is entirely the point. Squiddles! is a Homestuck album built around the fiction of a saccharine kids' show about cheerful squid creatures, and the commitment is terrifying.
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Tracks like "Squiddle Samba" and "Friendship is Paramount" are aggressively wholesome, all bouncy melodies and major keys. Then Toby Fox shows up voicing the villain Skipper Plumbthroat and the whole thing takes a sharp left turn into something genuinely unsettling.
"Catchyegrabber" is weirdly catchy for a song about squid abduction. The tonal whiplash between sunshine pop and creeping dread is... something. If you've ever wanted a children's album that slowly becomes a horror movie, this is your moment.