Atmospheric, melancholy piano work drifting over ambient pads that feel like staring out a rain-streaked window. Saishuu Shiken Kujira's soundtrack is a small collection from a mid-2000s PC visual novel, but the emotional density per track is real.
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"Dianoia" opens with this contemplative melody that keeps circling back on itself, never quite resolving. "A bird that can't fly" leans into the sadness with sustained strings underneath fragile piano phrases. Just seven tracks but they know exactly what they're doing.
"Dream of the butterfly" closes things out in this dreamlike fog, everything dissolving at the edges. Short and intentional. If you're the type of gamer who saves screenshots of cloudy skies in visual novels, this soundtrack was made for you.