Ride a Bull opens with this tense, driving piano-and-strings combo that immediately tells you World End Economica is not your typical visual novel soundtrack. Written by Hasekura (Spice and Wolf fame) with music that captures the anxiety of stock trading on a lunar colony.
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Hagana's Theme carries this melancholic weight in simple piano phrases that get under your skin. Then you hit Deep Space and suddenly everything opens up into vast, floating ambient territory. Gazing at the Earth is just...
achingly beautiful. The tracklist even throws in Gymnopédie and Beethoven's Pathétique, which somehow fits the cerebral mood perfectly. If you love VN soundtracks that treat silence and space as instruments, sit down with this one tonight.