Soaring vocal hooks slamming into mecha-scale orchestration with zero restraint. Genesis of Aquarion's second soundtrack disc from 2005 doubles down on Yoko Kanno's ability to make giant robot anime sound transcendent and ridiculous at the same time.
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"Go Tight!" opens with pure adrenaline pop-rock energy. "Psychedelic Academy" lives up to its name with funky, off-kilter grooves, and "BLAQARION" goes heavy and dark in a way that contrasts the show's weirder moments. "Genesis of Aquarion" itself is that song, the one everyone knows even if they never watched the show.
The range here is absurd. "Diet Waltz" into "Celiane" into "Interstellar Ferryboat." If you want a 2005 anime score that refuses to commit to a single genre and somehow pulls it all off, this is that soundtrack.