Quiet piano notes falling like actual snowflakes onto a Windows visual novel. Harumoi's complete soundtrack is all winter thaw and gentle melancholy. "Surely it can snow in a dream" sets the tone immediately, this fragile wintry feeling that the whole album keeps circling back to.
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"A walk along a snow-covered road" is exactly that kind of slow, crunching-through-fresh-powder calm. Then "Boogily-Woogily" shows up out of nowhere with this playful energy that breaks the ice. It's a needed contrast against tracks like "Silver Hill" and "Evening Sky" that lean hard into the contemplative.
The musicbox and piano versions of the title theme show how one melody can carry completely different weight depending on arrangement. Every track feels like it belongs in February. Play this the next time it snows outside your window and you have nowhere to be.