Those opening notes of Pollyanna hit and suddenly you're eleven years old believing everything will be okay. MOTHER's vocal arrangement album takes Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka's NES compositions and gives them full vocal treatments that feel impossibly warm.
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Bein' Friends has this earnest, swaying quality that could soundtrack a coming-of-age film. Magicant drifts into something ethereal and strange, matching that pink cloud dreamworld perfectly. Eight Melodies, the song you literally collect piece by piece through the whole game, lands with its full arrangement and it genuinely chokes people up.
Snow Man carries a loneliness that the NES hardware only hinted at. Flying Man is brief but heartbreaking if you know the context. If you love EarthBound but never went back to where it all started, these eleven tracks will show you exactly why people never stopped caring.