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Precipitous Combat
Chani's Eyes
Frantic Aspic

notes
-there are few tracks that sound more 'fft sakimoto' than Precipitous Combat, a sound and feel I enjoyed before I even knew who Sakimoto even was. military (especially those snares!) but also swashbuckling, with a sense of urgency (listen to those string runs!), it's dramatic in a way that's both perfect for the game it's used in and a real pleasure to hear as a standalone composition as well
-when I first heard heart of concrete my first instinct is 'oh man FL81 needs to listen to this'; it was far and away the most FL81-style track I'd heard from 2021's offerings
-chani's eyes took a while to grow on me. I wondered if it ever would! but it did, slowly, with its strangely oscillating synths and its sober, mysterious, somewhat haunting melody; very much a nighttime track, under an alien sky
-frantic aspic's animated and antic energy is just a blast; I love how rhythmically ambiguous this track is, even when it's set up with the kick drum; there's just not much vgm that captures this kind of energy for me and I'm thrilled that something like this finds a home in the splatoon series; lo-fi timpani beats to jam to