A compact eight-track set from an FM Towns game, and if you know what an FM Towns is, you already appreciate how deep this cut goes. Evolution was one of those early-90s Japanese PC titles that lived and died on the platform's superior sound capabilities, and Mark Flint's compositions squeeze every bit of character out of the hardware.
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The stage themes run through five levels of increasingly intense FM synthesis, each one building on the last. The real gem might be the "Unused Music (from Euphory)" tucked at the end. A track composed for a different project that never made it into the final game, preserved here like an archaeological find.
There's something wonderful about a 2007 soundtrack release rescuing music that would otherwise have been lost to time. Seven proper tracks plus one bonus, no filler, no padding. Title screen, five stages, game over. That's the entire arc of a game distilled into pure sound.
For FM Towns enthusiasts and retro computing music fans, this is the kind of obscure release that makes collecting worthwhile.