Haunting vocal layers that hang in the air like mist. Innocent Grey's Haruka Shimotsuki Collection draws from their PS2 and Windows visual novels, and the 2011 compilation wraps it all in Shimotsuki's signature ethereal voice.
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"Hollow Moon" opens with a chill that never fully leaves, "Snowdrop" is fragile and devastating, and "Purgatory" gets a second life in its arrange version that deepens the original. The whole album sits in this gothic, melancholic space.
Piano, strings, layered harmonies. It feels like wandering through a beautiful abandoned building. "Traumerei" as the closer is fitting. Dreaming, half-awake, not quite ready to let go. Essential listening for anyone who thinks game vocals peaked somewhere between sorrow and beauty.