Disasterpeace made a prog rock album out of chiptune sounds and somehow it feels massive. Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar takes the limited palette of bleeps and bloops and builds these sprawling, complex compositions that have no right sounding this ambitious.
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"Club Wolf" goes full progressive metal with electronic drums hitting like an EDM track. "Adrift" floats in this spacey calm before "The New Formation" locks into intricate rhythmic patterns that shift under your feet. "Beta's Brilliancy" is pure showing off in the best way.
The whole thing took four years to write and you can hear it. If you think chiptune can't be serious compositional work, Disasterpeace has an argument to make.