3/16/2024 0 Comments Sayonara wild hearts credits![]() It’s a narrative that’s been meticulously planned to deliver an emotional experience,” Daniel Olsén, the composer for Sayonara Wild Hearts, told me over email. “ Sayonara asks players to experience a journey similar to an album. It felt like a way to breathe new life into a form buried under busy lives and fragmented listening patterns. Travelling from level one to credits, and from the opening track to denouement. It’s an album that let me live inside of it, fly with its highs and plummet with its lows. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Sayonara Wild Hearts -billed as a “Pop Album Video Game”-is the closest thing I’ve had to those older experiences in years. A playlist, in contrast, becomes a collection of disparate scenes. If we look at albums as sonic stories, then the last fifteen minutes of a forty-five minute LP is the third act. Streaming services like Spotify offer convenience, but they also remove individual tracks from their original context, muddying intent and emotion. The economic and social pressures to manage our time with an almost mechanical efficiency increasingly encourages us to experience art in chimeric form – so much art, so little time. The difference between a journey and a visit. ![]() The reward for my undivided attention was the feeling of being present within a soundscape from start to finish. ![]() ![]() Not as the background noise to another activity, but as a sole focus. When I eventually made a choice and brought it home, I’d lie on my bed, eyes closed, and listen to the whole thing. I’d save up, take a walk, and flick through CD cases at the shop for a half hour. Before I bought my first used iPod, and listening to music became a mess of stray MP3s and burnt mix CDs, an album was a ritual. ![]()
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