Twilight Q is one of those obscure 80s OVA projects with early Mamoru Oshii involvement, and this 2004 soundtrack release captures all that strange, contemplative energy. Twenty-three tracks that drift between eerie ambient pieces and jazz-tinged detective noir.
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時の結び目 opens with this unsettled, suspended feeling. The two 喫茶サーリング tracks create this recurring café motif that grounds everything. 走る! snaps into sudden intensity. The four 調書 tracks in the back half play like chapters of an investigation, each one shifting mood.
腐った海 sounds exactly like a rotting sea should. Murky and slow. If you're into Oshii's weirder pre-Ghost in the Shell work, the music carries the same offbeat DNA.