High-energy synth-rock that sounds like it was ripped straight from an 80s anime dogfight sequence. Fat Bard composed Rogue Flight's soundtrack for this on-rails space combat game, and the whole thing runs hot from track one.
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"Yokou" featuring Itoki Hana brings genuine J-pop vocals that nail the anime aesthetic, while "Badlands" cranks the intensity with driving percussion and aggressive synth leads. "Saturn" and "Io" each carve out their own planetary identity.
The PCM versions of every track strip things back to raw pulse-code modulation, giving the whole album a retro alternate reality feel. That duality is cool. If StarFox and Macross had a baby raised on synthwave, this is what it would sound like.