Eight tracks from Overdrive's final VN, and every one matters. MUSICUS! is literally about music, about a band, about whether art is worth the suffering. "Beginning of a Parade" opens with hope. "Look into the Abyss" goes Nietzsche on you.
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"Gura Gura" shakes with instability. "Kachou-Fugetsu" (Flowers, Birds, Wind, Moon) closes with a Japanese concept of experiencing nature's beauty. "Harmonic" brings musical terminology into its own title. "Bird Food" is unexpectedly mundane between the philosophy.
Eight tracks from a VN that treats rock music as a matter of life and death. If you played MUSICUS! and the band scenes changed how you think about music, this album is that feeling preserved.