This is late-80s anime rock at its most unapologetically loud. Sonic Soldier Borgman's Last Gig of the World soundtrack drops ten tracks of pure city pop-meets-mecha energy. DON'T LOOK BACK opens with that era's signature punchy drum machine and soaring vocal hooks that could soundtrack a highway chase.
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BATTLE FLOWER shifts gears into something heavier, guitar-driven and urgent. Then Tender comes along and pulls everything back into this sincere ballad territory. So good it hurts a little. The whole thing sounds like 1989 distilled into forty minutes of synth brass and power chords.
If you grew up on Bubblegum Crisis or Megazone 23, this lives in that exact same neighborhood.