Early 2000s melancholy just dripping out of every track. No Reality's soundtrack has that specific turn-of-the-millennium PC game atmosphere where everything sounds slightly underwater and sad. Back in City carries this weight like walking through somewhere you used to know, while Cold Sigh strips things down to almost nothing.
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World is Blue keeps coming back, first as its own track and then again as a reprise, bookending the whole thing with this color of loneliness that the title basically spells out. Echo of Night sits in that late-album space where the mood has nowhere left to go but deeper.
The whole thing feels like a 2001 Windows game that nobody played but someone clearly poured themselves into. Worth it if you chase atmosphere over everything else.