Dark, brooding electronic pulses crawling under your skin. Ergo Proxy's 2006 anime soundtrack hits with the same oppressive atmosphere as the show's dystopian dome city. "Raging Pulse" and "New Pulse" push mechanical rhythms forward while "Wasteland Nostalgia" opens up into something desolate and aching.
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The track titles alone tell you what you're in for. "Deal in Blood," "Autoreiv Contagion," "He the Empty." This is not a cheerful listening experience. "Paranoid Android" closes the first opus out with all the existential weight the show is known for.
"RE-L124c41+" is named after the protagonist herself, and it sounds exactly like her, cold on the surface with something desperate underneath. For anyone who watched Ergo Proxy in a dark room at 3AM and wanted to stay there.