Look Mum No Computer feels both fresh and familiar. Fresh, due to its unique setting and soundtrack revolving around electronics and modular synthesizers. Familiar, as it gives me a similar joy to playing my childhood favourite, Raptor: Call of the shadows .. frantic action, all gameplay, awesome soundtrack, no handholding, slowly building up your arsenal, etc.
The interactive music highlights both the game's main strength and weakness. The more you upgrade your weapons/synthesizer, the more intricate and rich the music gets. As you start out with zero upgrades, the music is also bare-bones. The upside: it only gets better from here, but you do need to be quite patient. As you're nearing the end, the music does get absolutely amazing!
Related to this is the difficulty curve: it starts out easy, then very slowly picks up .. then the difficulty spikes around the latter half~third of the game. Nonetheless, this latter half more than makes up for the slow start, so don't let this discourage you from picking up the game. It really is a gem! Not just the music and the gameplay mechanics are great, but so are the cute and quirky graphics, the fun bits of dialogue and the overall tone.
About the YT channel tied to this game (also called Look Mum No Computer). You definitely don't have to know it to enjoy the game; I suppose they capture the same upbeat tinkering spirit :) ..and that Sam is the actual mad lad who made the music. That's also what confused me at first: knowing the channel, I kind of expected the game to be more in-depth on how to build electronics or modular synthesizers, but that's not what this is! That would be cool too, but maybe then it wouldn't be as good at being a proper game.
In short, I can only highly recommend you give Look Mum No Computer a try! I'd love Sam & The Bitfather to make more of this in the future!
PS: if the game's effects are straining your eyes, try disabling "Chromatic aberation" and "Bloom" in the settings