This compilation album from Overdrive's visual novel Musicus is basically a full rock discography disguised as a game soundtrack. The fictional bands across the tracklist each have their own sound, from the ska-punk energy of SKASKAのSKA to the slow-burn melancholy of SORROW and the restless guitar work on Another Dimension.
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Composers Jun Anazawa and Yutaka Nagareda wrote songs that feel like they belong to real bands with real histories. 真夜中チャイム has this late-night radio warmth to it. Two discs, over forty tracks, and almost all of them vocal performances.
It's wild how fully realized these fictional groups sound. If you've ever wanted a VN that treats its music like a character, Musicus and this collection are exactly that.