Celtic strings and live instrumentation opening an MMO in 2016 felt like stepping into a different timeline. Sevin and S.F.A, along with SoundTeMP, built Tree of Savior's first volume as this gorgeous middle ground between Ragnarok Online's pop sensibility and Granado Espada's classical intensity.
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Xanadu is five minutes of pure atmosphere that people still talk about years later. Hunter Green builds with this patient confidence across its runtime, and Woman Peeling Potatoes is the most unexpectedly beautiful track name hiding a genuinely great composition.
The piano bonustracks strip everything back and still hold up. Thirty-two tracks of a team that clearly cared about every single note. If you ever wondered why people obsess over this MMO's music above all others, this is where it started.