* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Midnight City", "Wait", "Outro". Heck just about the entirety of ''[[Music/HurryUpWereDreaming Hurry Up, We're Dreaming]]'' is this.
* BrokenBase: ''Before The Dawn Heals Us'' is either one of their best albums or one of their worst, depending on who you ask.
** Hell, pretty much everything since, too. Even ''Saturdays = Youth'' isn't free from it.
** ''Junk'' is even more so one, turning up the funk and dance-pop influences and generally seeming less serious than previous albums, which seems to set off many.
* EndingFatigue: Saturdays = Youth ends with Midnight Souls Still Remains, which might be the most egregious example of this in indie rock history. It's a very simple chord progression played on a single 80s synth with no other elements or instruments. This would've been fine as a calming 2 minute coda to the brutal Dark Moves of Love, but the composition lasts a whopping '''11 minutes''' with [[ExaggeratedTrope zero variation or progression]].
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: A few examples...
** Doubling as a TearJerker, "[=Farewell/Goodbye=]", a duet. Especially the final verses...
--> "Feeling frozen." / "I'll warm you every night."\\
"Falling asleep." / "I'll travel in your dreams."
** "I Guess I'm Floating"; an warm ambient piece coupled with the sounds of children playing in the background.
** Much of ''Hurry Up, We're Dreaming'' counts as SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel, but in particularly...
*** "Midnight City", an ode to the Los Angeles skyline, particularly in the second verse.
*** "Reunion" invokes this.
*** "Steve [=McQueen=]". Try listening to this song without feeling energized or like you’re soaring freely through the sky.
* LesYay: The "Kim and Jessie" video has it in bunches, that is until the [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday possibly subverted]], [[HeteronormativeCrusader cryptically hinted-at]] or it-meant-something-different-the-entire-time ending.
* MemeticMutation: "Midnight City" has spawned many edits and remixes ever since its release, with a notable video being "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m2fVWj99x4 Stepping on the M83]]", a mashup with "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E18TexasWalkingSmall Stepping on the Beach]]" from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.
* NightmareFuel:
** "Car, Chase, Terror!" It's an entire track about a car chase between a creepy man and a mother with her daughter. It has somewhat of a DownerEnding.
*** And since there is only one vocalist performing on that track, you get the impression that both her daughter and the man are figments of her not-too-sane imagination.
** "Don't Save Us From the Flames". [[LyricalDissonance The song is musically joyous and happy]]. [[BrainBleach The lyrics, on the other hand...]]
* SignatureSong: "Midnight City" is their most known song to date. Chances are, even if you haven't heard of the band, you'll still recognize the song's distinct sound.
* SongAssociation: Earlier in his career, "This Bright Flash" was one of the outro themes for LetsPlay/PewDiePie. Those who watched him early in 2013 will associate it with him.
* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: ''Hurry Up, We're Dreaming'' was actually inspired by this trope. And it’s obvious once you hear songs like “Midnight City” and “Steve [=McQueen=]”.
** "I Guess I'm Floating" from ''Before The Dawn Heals Us''.
* TearJerker: Although each album's tone gets lighter, there are many examples...
** "Gone", with a notable screaming as the full melody kicks in.
** Much of ''Before The Dawn Heals Us'':
*** "I'm In The Cold And Standing", and in a similar style, "Let Men Burn The Stars"
*** "Safe"
*** "[=Farewell/Goodbye=]". It's so simplistic yet incredibly saddening at the same time. Guaranteed to make you blubber like a baby if you're not prepared. May possible double as a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming Song]].
*** The [[EpicRocking finale]], "Lower Your Eyelids and Die With The Sun"
** From ''Saturdays = Youth'', "The Dark Moves of Love" is ''brutal'': depending on your interpretation of the lyrics, it's either sung by someone trying to bring back an ex, or, more likely, someone trying to bring back a loved one who died.
-->"I will fight the time and bring you back..."
** From Disc 2 of ''Hurry Up, We're Dreaming'', "My Tears Are Becoming A Sea".
*** "Wait". Full stop, with its' moving and powerful buildup. It's also been [[Series/UnderTheDome used]] [[Film/TheFaultInOurStars several]] [[Series/TheVampireDiaries times]] on powerful tearjerker moments.
*** Of course, "Outro" also follows.
** "For the Kids" from ''Junk'' is either this or extreme {{Narm}}, depending on the listener. It seems to be about a mother who has lost her young daughter. Then there's a spoken-word interlude that seems to be the daughter comforting her mother from beyond the grave.
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