Gentle strings and a soft piano that sounds like sunlight on water. Genshin Impact's first Shimmering Voyage album captures the Golden Apple Archipelago era, all summer islands and character stories told through music. "Melody of Jellyfish" is this floaty, translucent piece that genuinely sounds like watching bioluminescence at night.
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"The Wolf Boy" carries Razor's whole lonely backstory in a single track. And "Sneaky & Mischievous" has that playful energy of Klee doing something she absolutely should not be doing. Cozy, breezy, occasionally heartbreaking.
If you need background music that feels like a vacation you took inside a video game and somehow still miss, start here.