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This is the best video game soundtrack I've ever heard. Everything about Side Order is Octo Expansion, 10% better. Free Association and the return of Dedf1sh from Octo Expansion just deliver the best thing 2024 could've asked for. Hyped this one up for a while, and didn't let down at all.
This was my #1 the best Video Game OST of the decade, until Side Order beat their own high score. Just hearing this in the background of Octo Expansion, while you recover the memcakes (memories in physical form), makes the whole thing worth it, not to mention the actual gameplay is nice, but the star of the show is truly Dedf1sh going to town on this OST. The splatoon aesthetic in general is ridiculously nice, like creating the 3rd member of the band in splatoon 3 after polkadot stingray ... read more
They finally decided to reinvent the meta rather than perfecting the correct psychedelia of the year... Parenthood inspires them to take seemingly one trip through their dark cold salvia-infested woods, but this time submerged in a 10 feet deep ocean. If Merriweather is the Kind of Blue of Neo-Psychedelica, this is its Bitches Brew.
Be patient with this one, and watch it bloom.
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90+ all time greats || 80+ best of that year || average: 65.2 || Have two full length reviews: Danse Manatee (Dec. 2016), and TBS&SL (Dec. 2017)
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