Clear vocals and that turn-of-the-millennium Dreamcast/PC game soul. Hiromi Sato's theme song collection pulls together vocal tracks from various games around 2001, and it feels like a time capsule of that era. "A Melody of You and Me" opens with warmth, and "Sign" anchors the whole collection with the kind of vocal performance that sticks.
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"through the blow and like a bird ~To the Shining Hill~" has a title as long as the emotions it carries. Several tracks get new recordings or new mixes, like "Canary" and "Water Color," giving the collection a sense of revisitation.
"Shield" appears in both a new mix and an unplugged version, and hearing the difference tells you a lot about the song's range. If you miss the sound of early 2000s Japanese game vocal collections, this is exactly that feeling.