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Gwen
Golden Nocturne
Fly in the Freedom ...Theme of Rouge

First match is weird. I think Gwen does an amazing job of accompanying the story in its video, but I'm not fully convinced that the music in isolation is better than LP. It's close. I wrote this paragraph before deciding where I was going to settle.

Golden Nocturne is super hype. It feels like a standard JRPG boss theme in some ways, but that isn't really a complaint. I really like the feel around 1:20 or so. It's very... slanted? Can I call music slanted? I dunno how else to describe it. But then Edge of the Future comes in with the doobeedoob motif and while this isn't the best version of that motif, it's still super cool. Then it's weaker for a bit, goes through some versions of other songs that those other songs do better quite frankly, and then we get french horn doobeedoobs into clinging-to-hope french horn solo. Eventually we even start getting chanting with horn solos and I'm loving it but there's so much mediocre we had to wade through to get there. Ugh. Edge of the Future has such powerful highs, but Golden Nocturne is much much more consistent.

Third match I don't really have strong feelings for either way.

i dunno. i might change my mind on all three tomorrow.