Camellia absolutely going off in this 2023 rhythm game release, delivering the kind of maximalist electronic mayhem that's made the producer a legend in the arcade music scene. "Achromatic City ~Lost Palette~" opens with a colorless-world concept that Camellia executes through stripped-back tones before the bass drops obliterate everything.
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"Ambergris" is lush and layered, "Psycho+Heroes" in its extended Foolholic version goes full hyperpop unhinged, and "Ratio'd + Cringed + Scratched" has a title that's basically a shitpost turned into a banger. The middle stretch is where it gets wild.
"Sswwiinnddlleerr!!" stretches the word out like the track is warping around itself, "Bayonex" delivers that Xtrablast intensity in long form, and the title track "Ashed Wings" hits with genuine emotional weight underneath all the distortion.
"Denpa Never Die" is a love letter to denpa music culture, and "Screw - - Owo - - Screw" is Camellia being Camellia, turning internet culture into actual art. The closing stretch brings it home beautifully. "Drenched in Air" has this ethereal quality that contrasts with everything before it, "Gray Heaven" sits in melancholic territory, and "Following the Waving Wings ~Last Plaudits~" closes the album with a sense of finality and gratitude.
This is Camellia at peak creative output, somewhere between Sound Voltex charts and genuine artistic expression, and the long versions here give every idea room to breathe in ways the arcade cuts never could.