Yoko Kanno scored an arcade mecha game and somehow it sounds like a lost Macross album. Starwing Paradox has Kanno and Akio Izutsu building this dense, layered soundtrack where the vocal theme "Hoshi to Tsubasa no Paradox" featuring chelly from EGOIST just soars over everything.
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"Collective Unconscious" does that thing Kanno does best, blending orchestral tension with electronic textures until you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. "Mad Fake Land" gets weird and percussive in the best way.
The whole thing carries this weight that feels too big for an arcade cabinet, like Square Enix let them score a full anime instead. Only 14 tracks but every one is dense. If Kanno's name alone isn't enough to get you listening, the mecha energy will do the rest.