Skyler McGlothlin composed the soundtrack for a game where you literally play a space shooter backwards to fix the timeline, and the music had to work in both directions. That constraint produced something wild. Retro/Grade's tracks are built on this guitar-driven electronic rock foundation that feels equally natural whether you're un-shooting aliens or watching your score count down.
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"All Your Bass Are Belong to Us" grooves on a nasty bassline that earns that title, while "Reverse Rhapsody" layers synths in ways that genuinely sound palindromic. "Backwards Ballad" gets surprisingly melodic and wistful.
The whole album reads like internet culture circa 2012 with those track names. If you've ever wanted a rhythm game that also functions as a physics thought experiment, this is your answer.