Kazumi Totaka's Animal Crossing City Folk soundtrack is basically a hug in album form. The hourly town themes shift so subtly you don't realize the mood has changed until "Night in City Square" hits and everything gets soft and glowy.
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But the real treasure here is the K.K. Slider collection. "Stale Cupcakes" is this melancholy little acoustic piece that has no business being that emotional in a game about catching bugs. "K.K. Bossa" is still the smoothest thing to ever come out of a Wii.
The way he bounces between genres, from metal to technopop to calypso, all filtered through that lo-fi dog voice. Ridiculous and perfect. If you've ever fallen asleep to Animal Crossing music on YouTube, you already know.