"Bird's Poem" alone has made people cry for over two decades. Key's AIR soundtrack from 2002 is one of the foundational visual novel scores, composed with the kind of emotional precision that turned an entire generation into VN believers.
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"Summer Lights" and "Field Path" capture that heavy, golden Japanese summer atmosphere. "Farewell Song" appears in standard, short, and dream versions, each one hitting differently. "Giniro" in both its orgel (music box) and full arrangements shows how one melody can shatter you in two completely different ways.
Even the six unused tracks got included here. "Nocturne" and "Plume" carry the late-game emotional weight, and "Blue Skies" is the sky you keep looking at after the story ends. If you've somehow never listened to this and you have any tolerance for being emotionally devastated, clear your evening.