Soft synths and warm piano lines that sound like summer refusing to end. Lamune is a PS2/PC visual novel from 2005 and the soundtrack carries that mid-2000s slice-of-life energy perfectly. Tracks like "Summer Sky 86's" and "Beach 83's" do exactly what you'd expect, sun-soaked and breezy, the kind of background music that makes you feel nostalgic for a childhood you didn't even have.
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"Fireworks 87's" hits different at night with headphones on. The naming convention is wild, everything tagged with decade numbers, but it gives the whole album this scrapbook quality. Evening Sky fading into Starry Sky fading into Spica.
Put this on when you want to feel like you're watching fireflies from a porch somewhere in rural Japan.