That opening brass hit from "Tank!" is burned into the brain of anyone who watched late-night anime in the early 2000s. Cowboy Bebop's 1998 soundtrack by Yoko Kanno is jazz, blues, and rock colliding in deep space. "Space Lion" builds from nothing into this gorgeous sax-driven crescendo that genuinely makes you stare at the ceiling.
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"Rain" is heartbreak distilled into a few minutes of soft melody. "Spokey Dokey" gives you that lonely harmonica wandering through a dusty bar on some forgotten asteroid. Every track feels like a short film. The whole thing bounces between genres like the Bebop crew bounces between planets.
Never settling, always cool. If you have never listened to this, honestly what have you been doing.