anemoia

The more I hear it, the more chills appear... So horrifically good.

Chills every time Backroom Labyrinth kicks in

I like how the letters D and A in DREAM flicker, leaving only REM, just like the sleep phase. Ingenious idea, since we experience the REM stage while dreaming!

"ok, you just have to make music for a trailer about a game thats about a webcore series" Oliver buckland:

1:22 THE CHILLS I GOT HEARING THE BACKROOM LABYRINTH LEITMOTIF SO CLEARLY. anemoia is such a fitting name for this piece, it feels like a testament to how far this series has come

Anemoia, for those who don't know, is a word that means nostalgia for a place or experience you actually never went through. So a longing and homesickness for an occurrence never happened, or a song never listened to...

If this is just a trailer song, imagine how killer the game's OST will be...

0:40 the synths in this part scratches just the right itch in my brain, it's so good

It’s so enchanting. It’s like coherent but still completely insane.

This sounds like your phobias are singing you a lullaby

I am blown away. The Backroom Labyrinth motif. The sampling of a flare and firework explosions. The absolutely unintelligible time signature. The combination of opera-style vocals and synths Skrillex wishes he could get his hands on. The booming piano in sync to contrast a softer melody. The raw emotion conveyed here is something that doesn’t exist, much like the false memories that the song provides. Oliver Buckland, you have created such an absurd yet fully enjoyable work of art here. It doesn’t provide emotion, no; this music forces no emotion and also every emotion into me, simultaneously. And I know this is just one track of a bigger picture. I look forward to more. Thank you.

I showed this track to my mom the other day. I play your stuff in the car all the time and she absolutely loves your music, congrats on winning over two separate generations :3c

I cannot describe to you how amazing this track is, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it

I think this confirms "Backroom Labyrinth" as the theme of the ENA series and I'm all for it!

The dream BBQ really has a studio Ghibli vibe to it, from the visuals like massive structures, down to the music. I am so hyped for this game.

Every musical phrase I'm like "ew dissonance, sounds yucky" and then it gets resolved with a chord that somehow just works(?) and makes the phrase retroactively sound good??? And the sound design very unique and well done. I am happy and confused!

The amount of goosebumps I have right now is immense

Fantastic song

Y'know, that last title card really shows in an image that characters in this world...they're never quite just, okay. They're always in some transitional state, lopsided, never seeming quite stable. There's a weird kind of energy vibrating through the whole aesthetic and world, and this music really does capture the whimsical, tense part of that energy. I'm gonna listen to it a bunch. :D

Words cannot describe how good this track is. Like it’s not just beautiful by itself but it perfectly fits the trailer shot by shot. It just feels like so much intention, love and passion was put into this project. I believe that you, Joel and anyone else involved in ENA is like, making legit art.