Soft, aching vocal tracks that will absolutely wreck you. CLANNAD's image vocal album came out in 2003, before the anime even existed, and it already had the emotional devastation locked in. "Shining in the Sky" is the standout, a gentle piano-and-voice piece that sounds like looking at old photographs.
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"Roar of the Sea" carries this bittersweet longing that just sits in your chest. "Over" opens the album with quiet determination. Six tracks total. Every one is a vocal arrangement of themes from the visual novel, performed with the kind of sincerity that Key games are known for.
The production is clean and intimate, very early-2000s PC visual novel. That specific flavor of beautiful sadness. If you've ever cried at a visual novel and pretended you didn't, this album already knows.