There’s nothing quite like the nostalgia of listening to an old song. No matter how much time has passed, a melody or lyric can transport you right back to the age when you first heard it. So how do we create that in modern music?

Let’s talk about the ‘throwback song’. A throwback song is a song that ‘throws back’ to the ideas or elements of a song from an older era of music, emulating it in some way or form. However, the art of a throwback song is more complicated than it sounds. While many songs…