Soft piano dissolving into static. I Wish You Were Here is an anime visual novel from 2002 and this second soundtrack volume leans hard into the melancholy. "Interlude [tsuisou]" is this slow ache that just sits in your chest, while the "short pieces" trilogy for Yuji, I, and aftermath feel like flipping through polaroids of someone you used to know.
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Then "Lunatic Trance" hits and completely changes the mood. Distorted, almost frantic, like the show remembered it has a dark side. The whole thing lives in that early 2000s anime synth space where everything sounds like it was recorded in a room with too much reverb.
Deliberately fragile. Put this on when you want background music that makes staring out a window feel cinematic.