Dark electronic pulses bleeding into trip-hop atmospheres that sound like Massive Attack decided to score a cyberpunk philosophy lecture. Ergo Proxy's second OST picks up where the first left off, but goes further into the shadows.
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"Mazecity" is claustrophobic and mechanical, all tight loops and paranoid energy. "Deus Ex Machina" opens up into something more expansive but no less unsettling. And closing with "Kiri" by MONORAL, that grungy post-punk track, is still one of the hardest anime ending themes of the 2000s.
The mid-album stretch from "Ophelia" through "Terra Incognita" is where it gets really introspective, matching the show's philosophical detours beat for beat. If you watched Ergo Proxy for the vibes and stayed for the existential dread, this is that feeling in album form.