Before there was Joy Electric and Starflyer 59, there was Dance House Children. Influenced by 808 State and Erasure, Ronnie and Jason Martin made club-friendly techno music full of bleeps and bloops, as well as Ronnie’s breathy vocals and poetic lyrics. But instead of partying it up at the discothèque, Dance House Children composed deeply earnest songs about faith, family values (before that term got ickily co-opted), domesticity, and, as they wrote in the liner notes of 1992’s Jesus, “those certain times in life that were so beautiful, only to have faded and gone.”

That certainly explains song titles like “The Locket Maker,” “Homespun Is Happy,” and “A Cottage Song.” Nostalgia suffuses Jesus, and nowhere more so than on “Wisteria Time,” which closes the album with sweeping synths, a rolling piano melody, and Ronnie Martin imploring “Kiss the flower/That I gave to you to hold in love/And relive what you should.”

I first heard Jesus because a girl in my youth group let me borrow her cassette copy. I happened to have a massive crush on her at the time — she was, in fact, the first girl I ever fell in love with — so needless to say, “Wisteria Time” became the official soundtrack for my crush. Those feelings have long since disappeared, but “Wisteria Time” still reminds me of the power of youthful ardor, which feels so pure, honest, and simple at the time.