and yet unlike the backrooms, Ena's universe feels like it was made by the collective conscious of the entire human race. Everything feels alive. There's sorrow, there's grief, but due to the sheer amount of input involved from that collective conscious, it all ends up getting jumbled. Like a smorgasbord of what it means to be... a human artist.
I actually felt super hyped when that part popped up! It makes Dream BBQ feel like the next big step in the series by calling back to the previous project
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!
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...
Like that one time, I was listening to "The music when you fight Sans" and even if I had heard it multiple times; it somewhat felt familiar even though I had just listened to it. That could be just me, after all. Consider this more of an example rather than a comment, I guess.
I agree with you and also, Im amazed not only by the games nostalgic and low polygon style, also by how good the music is synchronised with the game theme, and the trailer is just, wow.
@@feedfancier Definitely yeah! I dont watch alot of japanese animations, so I dont know many studios, but from searching up the studio id say thats pretty spot on.
@just a hyena Ok, I'll try and steelman: ENA is very whimsical and Contemplative. When Ghibli depict nature or horror or dreamscape, they do so in a slow and observant method. As ENA is similar in its approach, that might have reminded OP of Ghibli.
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
just like the series as a whole, it looks like a bunch of delerious nonsense at first but it feels like there's an underlying theme or structure to it all. no idea what it is yet but I suspect we'll get a lot more to think about in DBBQ
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!
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
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.
For some reason, this song consistently brings me to the brink of tears. I left a comment on the trailer saying that Ena's world feels like home to me, and I think that applies to this, too. It somehow feels both peaceful and archaic-- like an apocalypse that has already happened.
Ena's world reminds me of the old now long since abandoned 3D chatrooms that were so popular back in the early days of the internet, the abandoned worlds i used to play around in them when i was a kid so Joel's work is pretty nostalgic to me and im pretty sure that Joel G was inspired on those at least to some degree (as well as maybe LSD simulator?)
This somehow combines the feeling of order and absolute chaos in itself. It is both a musical masterpiece and a nonsensical collection of noise at the same time. It is such a great project, the one who made it should be very proud of themselves
Listening to this my last week before going off to do adult job money stuff, already kinda feels like my life's ending. This makes me sad and nostalgic over times that aren't even gone yet, and the title is right on the dot. If the whole point of art is to evoke emotion then this is perfection.
At this point this song plays in my head by default when I'm not thinking of anything particular. It's just the fourth time in my life this has happened, but I'm loving it. Thank you for creating this masterpiece.
Ever since the trailer came out, I've rewatched it over and over- especially for the music, so I'm glad you uploaded your own video too. Sounds heavenly.
The way you and Joel Guerra have cooperated and made the music match with the animation perfectly is awesome!👏👏 + Backroom Labyrinth ost gives me extreme suspense
The more I listen to this track, the more I find additional details that really add to the piece. The Backrooms Labyrinth leitmotif, the soprano vocals during the spatula ballerina scenes, the penultimate (what sounds like a) xylophone, and that descending sound at the end that's meant to mimic fireworks flying in the air (but also adds to the vibe of the piece overall, as the sound falls off at the end...) It's so GOOD I could listen to this forever!! I think what really adds to this piece though is how it REALLY adheres to the theme it's named after (anemoia). I could have sworn I've heard some parts of the music and melody in your other songs, like espial, but I cannot for the life of me find it -- as if I've been misremembering a music experience I never had... All in all, much and many kudos! Love your work, and can't wait to see what the project becomes! :D
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
MY. FAVORITE. ENA. OST. EVER!!!! It's just a masterpiece! My feelings about this track: 0:00 - 0:26 Mysterious beginning with such a good choir. Mph (It's sound of satisfaction) 0:27 - 0:40 I like that thing that when spatula woman appears it's playing high women voice and when appears this giant it's playing low brass tube. Grace soprano for a ballerina and mighty bass for a giant 0:40 - 0:46 - 6 seconds. Just a 6 seconds. And it's so amazing. This piano... I can't describe it! But for me the main atmosphere in this moment it's is grating. Just sending the chill down the spine... 0:47 - 1:04 - More intensive part. It's starting to speed up, but at the end of this part it's slowing and stopping. Just because it's gonna explode it the next part. 1:04 - 1:22 - CULMINATION!!! The drums are giving a rythm. Intensity of the track on its peak! It's feeling like something, that you can't describe. Perfect 1:22 - 1:34 - Reflection... With the BACKROOM LABYRINTH MELODY!! This is it! It's so homelike! Nostalgia for a place where you have never been! Anemoia! Only Minecraft OST and Studio Ghibli music caused this feeling! 1:34 - 2:03 - The ending. In the beginning of this part so good melody. I can't track it! It's beginning so fast and ending just in the same moment! I can't stop to repeat it again, because I'm trying to track it! But I can't! good!
This song is so great I always want to come back and listen to it again, but the track is so complex it's actually hard to remember how it sounds, I'm so excited for the game release
The name for this song is absolutely perfect. We have yet to fully experience this chapter of ena and yet I feel like I’m remembering the whole game and reminiscing just from this.
Anemoia doesnt even feel like nostolgia for something just seen for the first time, the song feels like bringing me to a place filled with anemoia I love this song so much
'A nostalgia for I time you've never known' is a way that perfectly describes the mood ENA gives off, and the way you mixed in sniplets of your past songs emulate that feeling perfectly. god damn I'm excited for Dream BBQ
Honestly, to me it sounds like the hero finally arrived to save the world - but he was too late. And now it is a fragmented, almost warped mess of what it once was.
I don’t know how you made a song this good, I’ve never been able to listen to a song on repeat and get the essence of when I first watched it every single time. I have listened to this song 3,000 times and I still feel like I’m listening to it for the first again and again and I can’t think of any word capable of describing how good this is.
This song is so amazing. Strangely it has a v similar vibe to me as the feeling I get from My Time from Omori, probably both being indie game trailer songs, but there are points, especially right before the drop, where things really remind me of My Time.
I don't agree completely. Yeah My time and this song are similar, but with My Time I get more creepy vibes, like what should b a regular event went horribly wrong. With the other song, it feels like slipping into a dream; like my brain turned familiar sounds into jibberous as I lose consciousness.
I can't describe how this makes me feel, and for this song to have been posted just an hour ago is such a fantastic coincidence. I learned about ENA literally half an hour ago, and I'm already enchanted. Thank you so much.
This is an unrepeatable masterpiece. When I first watched the trailer with headphones on I had to sit still for a few minutes just to take in what I just experienced. I'm not exaggerating.
The backroom labyrinth motif a 3/4ths through the song honestly gave me chills, it’s such a fantastical moment conveyed especially in the trailer, showing off the world. I can’t wait for the game to dropppp
Discordant, yet harmonious Incomprehensible, yet understanding Worried, yet calm Exhausted, yet full of energy A mind is broken, and yet I have never been more sane The world tears asunder, yet it is made whole The oceans are drained, yet they are overflowing The sky grows darker, yet the light still shines Life is worth little, but worth so much How strange, isn’t it Old friend? Can you hear it? That tune… It is so familiar, yet I cannot recall a time when I had heard it before… I ask once more Can you hear it? That tune, welcoming yet foreboding Strange, yet normal Unknown, yet familiar It Approaches the stage is set Our little game draws near Soon, it will all begin All you must do Is C O M P R E H E N D
I love finding poetry in comment sections. This perfectly captured the feeling of this music. You are good at this. You should write more poetry if you already don't.
I have been showing this to all my friends and discord groups, and I have this saved on multiple Playlists. It's incredible. I'm so stoked for Dream BBQ.
I love it so much, I kinda gives me a BOTW feel to it, especially i first few seconds! And it's so nice hearing some parts Backroom Labyrinth again, Good job Oliver! :D
While I love EVRYTHING about ENA, its production, its visuals, the voice acting (god forbid I don’t mention the voice acting) I think out of all of it the music sets the mood so well and makes it go so much higher up in quality. Like think about this for a moment. If not for the iconic, amazingly made music, ENA would only be half if what it was Props to you Oliver Buckland
I can't tell you how incredible this composition is. Oliver, you do a great job of conveying emotion through music. It feels like you're writing music not using instruments and synths, but using neural connections to evoke emotion directly. When I read the description, I realized that this is exactly what memories should sound like. Memories often represent the most memorable moments, the moments that evoked a great emotion in you. In this piece, all the elements sound as charismatic as possible. It is as if each instrument is an individual with its own story. Listening to this tune, the mind draws incredible pictures. I'm happy that you and joel g have found each other and made such an incredible product together. You are the ones who create modern art with modern thoughts and tools without relying on archaic notions of art. It's something you don't get tired of listening to for hours. This track + backroom labyrinth + espiral is constantly on my spotify playlist. I'm really happy I found you. Like a treasure chest hidden in a vast desert with no landmarks. I hope you keep releasing music, even though in a short time, I have become a fan of yours. p.s. Special thanks for the wave-like synth at 0:40 . During the first listen I even got tears flowing because of how beautiful and harmonious it sounds.
The amount of detail in this is amazing! Besides the music, the visualizers in this video are incredibly clever! The grey side of ENA in DBBQ is her “blocky” side, and the grey visualizer is also blocky. The red side of ENA is her “smooth” side, same with the visualizer. Just a neat tidbit I noticed.
TEARING UP AND SOBBING THIS MASTERPIECE HAS LITERALLY MADE ME CRY IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT I STARTED SOBBING BLESS THY SOUL FOR MAKING THIS IMMACULATE PIECE OF ART I WILL PRAISE THIS SONG AND HOLD IT DEARLY TO MY HEART I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I WILL SACRIFICE MYSELF FOR THIS SONG AMD PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS OLIVER BUCKLAND
I've been listening to this via the trailer nonstop since it dropped, this is such a hauntingly beautiful track. The vibes are just so otherworldly and perfect, it itches a really specific scratch in my brain and makes me feel something that no other artist has ever been able to make me feel. Can't wait for the game and more of your work!
i’ve only found the series within the last few days and i’m obsessed. especially this track, it brings me peace in a way i cant describe. i forgot how much i enjoy that surrealist stuff out there. i need a word more than peace tbh, listening to this on repeat makes me feel like a massive weight has been lifted from my body
I know I said I liked the implications of this theme on Dead God Graveyard, but that leitmotif has very firmly cemented itself as "some feeling of unreality." Using the theme in a track titled "anemoia," you've basically created a musical shortcut for that weird, disjointed, and yet somehow uniquely coherent feeling of everything being ever so slightly left of center when it comes to ENA and their world. Those four chords at 1:23 are h a u n t i n g in the best possible way, and I cannot wait to see what becomes of this pocket of an unremembered, but not forgotten past. Fantastic job, Oliver.
The dream bqq trailer is incredible but can we really talk how gorgeous this track is?! First part starts misterious, then there's that slow clicking clock beat, that whenever converges with the warm and melancholic piano notes and the sanctum like chorus, it embraces you into an uncertain nostalgic feeling. The bass pressence gets slightly louder but does not opacate the main melody, the chorus may go slightly unsetling but the new intrument added joins right in to keep you enticed into buckland's magic. Then, the chorus hits that high pitch and the bass slaps hard at your ears, trembling and distorting, awakening a sense of pain we didn't know but wanted to forget, like intrusive thoughts at 2 am. The chorus adds a male voice, and the whole track transforms from magical melancholy to a growing feeling of regret and dread. The piano goes up scale, reminding you of Espial(track I personally love) or Hourglass Meadow, but instead of sounding happy or quirky, it's hard hitting and serious. Familiar synth sounds join the whole enseble in this goal to submerge us into a false sense of hope, like propmting us to try and change something that already went south long, long ago. All this insane and gorgeous musical trip AND ITS ONLY THE FIRST MINUTE FOR GRYING OUT LOUD!!! Then comes the second part: opens with drums welcoming us into a macabre mad dance, full known that this musical experience became an adiction and we are all indulging on it. Then stops, Backroom labyrinth samples, the chorus going to it's intial sanctum like rythm. You realize the intial clicking clock beat was from Backroom all along, and you feel for it's enticing nostalgic magic power on you (or at least I was lol). But before you get too comfortable Buckland goes wild and reminds you this is a new experience, almost giving you a hint of whats to come but bam. it ended, leaving you again in misterious supense. so TL;DR. This track is insane and I fucking love it!!!
this is the strangest and the best audio in the whole universe.I listen to it everyday, it is just..perfect.And the fact that this was in the ENA trailer makes me just happier.
I constantly come back to this... So entrancing and beautiful; not many songs AT ALL bring on this feeling, and none of them do it so well. Thank you for this beautiful masterpiece...it alone makes the game a must buy (not that the game doesnt look amazing in its own right, but the music is just awe inspiring)
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I think this confirms "Backroom Labyrinth" as the theme of the ENA series and I'm all for it!
yeah it is I’m pretty sure 😋
It's fun how that's accidentally become such an iconic theme for ENA.
and yet unlike the backrooms, Ena's universe feels like it was made by the collective conscious of the entire human race. Everything feels alive. There's sorrow, there's grief, but due to the sheer amount of input involved from that collective conscious, it all ends up getting jumbled. Like a smorgasbord of what it means to be... a human artist.
I actually felt super hyped when that part popped up! It makes Dream BBQ feel like the next big step in the series by calling back to the previous project
@@angela.luntian yeah
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!
I’m just now noticing that holy that’s some detail right there
That's good design right there
nice
REM sleep, aka Rapid-eye-movement sleep
This might be unintentional, but they also flicker twice, creating DADA. Which is appropriate because ENA as a whole is extremely Dadaist to me.
This sounds like your phobias are singing you a lullaby
perfect description
My fear of the french got some tunes
now that's a description I can get by
@@ivanalves8506 lmaooo
turophobia
"ok, you just have to make music for a trailer about a game thats about a webcore series"
Oliver buckland:
exactly like c418
@@moiscoming c418 put his whole soul into the music, evem though it was his first time doing that genre.
The "Mice on Venus" experience
Bro really cooked at the dream bbq😴🍗🔥
Man...
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...
Strange, I've heard people say they've gotten nostalgia/deja vu from this.
Like that one time, I was listening to "The music when you fight Sans" and even if I had heard it multiple times; it somewhat felt familiar even though I had just listened to it.
That could be just me, after all. Consider this more of an example rather than a comment, I guess.
@@OddMoonlight yes lol
"solider, poet, king" is one example of songs I can think of that gave me that exact feeling. Felt surreal.
Ohh, so that’s the feeling I get for wanting to be a Japanese woman in the 80s when listening to Japanese City Pop
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.
Ghibli was the first thing I thought of when I saw the trailer
I agree with you and also, Im amazed not only by the games nostalgic and low polygon style, also by how good the music is synchronised with the game theme, and the trailer is just, wow.
There's more to Japanese animation than Studio Ghibli.
Id say Zelda CD-I, as directed by Hideaki Anno and animated by Studio Trigger.
@@feedfancier Definitely yeah! I dont watch alot of japanese animations, so I dont know many studios, but from searching up the studio id say thats pretty spot on.
@just a hyena Ok, I'll try and steelman:
ENA is very whimsical and Contemplative. When Ghibli depict nature or horror or dreamscape, they do so in a slow and observant method.
As ENA is similar in its approach, that might have reminded OP of Ghibli.
The more I hear it, the more chills appear... So horrifically good.
thats the best description of this song I heard, “horrifically good”
True.
@@captainkeyes9913 hi captain keyes
i read that as chilis
Ikr it’s so odd sounding yet so suspenseful
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.
Why is this comment so underrated?? These were the exact words I was looking for to describe why this piece is so good. :D
Isn't this song just switching between 3/4 and some other time signature?
@@wmm771
I haven’t listened in a while, but I’ll have to give it another go. Songs that switch time signatures always throw me off super hard, lmao.
@@wmm771more like 6/8
So at the Start It rly varies on Time signature But when the beat brings itself Its More like 3/4
I cannot describe to you how amazing this track is, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it
Same
me neither, im so hyped
Same
Right
We can't...
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
Same, my mom enjoyed this track too, she thought it was really good
i play music in the car with my parents too and they like oliver buckland a lot
my mom likes oliver buckland too lmao
:3c?
did i sense a homestuck mention?
Chills every time Backroom Labyrinth kicks in
Totally agreed, never felt chills for any other song before
Same!! Like omG is it good!!!
Fenneko pfp!!😋
Conveniently that's the next song that played on my autoplay and now I'm convinced you are in my walls
New fan from a year after this comment, this is still the case for me!
0:40 the synths in this part scratches just the right itch in my brain, it's so good
fr, and the piano part afterwards makes me so happy
@@hollowedoutsap exactly
Yummy
@@hollowedoutsapomfg r u Filipino?
Dyk Ena?, r u a fan of the series?
@@kneegas-on2gm yes I'm filipino and I love ena
It’s so enchanting. It’s like coherent but still completely insane.
just like the series as a whole, it looks like a bunch of delerious nonsense at first but it feels like there's an underlying theme or structure to it all. no idea what it is yet but I suspect we'll get a lot more to think about in DBBQ
The piano really reminds me of the Dandara Soundtrack, it’s very nice
@@xXx_Regulus_xXx I think DBBQ in particular has a strong anti-capitalist undertone beneath all the surrealism.
@@TescoValueMemes369 yes the most insane thought of human can be a thought that equality means justice
Real
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!
lmfaooo that's why i love dissonance
if it never resolves it sounds really messy, but once it resolves holy crap it's beautiful
at which part is that in the song?
This is why i will never try to learn music theory because id have to think of stuff like this while listening to stuff
@@blueparrot23 basically after 1:02
@@frodobaggins941 I sat through a class of music theory and, just saying most of it was kinda useless (Atleast for what I'm doing right now)
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
My favorite part is that its the exact same soundfont from the original song
first heart it in the trailer and literally got goosebumps, it's so good
In 1:22, I heard the Leitmotif {ID>[Backroom labyrinth by (Oliver buckland) } in extinction party.
When I heard the leitmotif it just felt right to hum it as a testament to the series
The drums playing like 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10
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.
For some reason, this song consistently brings me to the brink of tears. I left a comment on the trailer saying that Ena's world feels like home to me, and I think that applies to this, too. It somehow feels both peaceful and archaic-- like an apocalypse that has already happened.
Saaaaame…if I could live in ENA’s world, even for just a day, I’d most likely be a happier person.
@@achannelthatexists2014 ppl fr wanting to live in an apocalyptic hellscape.
@@AGuy-vq9qp At least it’s better than the hellscape we’re all living in right now lol 🤷♀️
Ena's world reminds me of the old now long since abandoned 3D chatrooms that were so popular back in the early days of the internet, the abandoned worlds i used to play around in them when i was a kid so Joel's work is pretty nostalgic to me
and im pretty sure that Joel G was inspired on those at least to some degree (as well as maybe LSD simulator?)
U may be interested in things like the souls games, they are post apocalypse fantasy worlds
It feels like a city that' s falling apart yet still being rebuilt
by who? greed, hope chaos or order. One shall not know
Fantastic song
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This somehow combines the feeling of order and absolute chaos in itself. It is both a musical masterpiece and a nonsensical collection of noise at the same time. It is such a great project, the one who made it should be very proud of themselves
The amount of goosebumps I have right now is immense
Its amazing, i always get goosebumps from this
Listening to this my last week before going off to do adult job money stuff, already kinda feels like my life's ending. This makes me sad and nostalgic over times that aren't even gone yet, and the title is right on the dot. If the whole point of art is to evoke emotion then this is perfection.
I’ve been on a Buckland kick recently. This shall slot nicely into my playlist...
a fine addition to my collection
Delicis song
I literally love his music sm
0:53 Piano kicking up just gets my heart pumping. Very fitting for ENA.
I was in awe listening to this in the Dream BBQ trailer. Your music leaves a mark.
At this point this song plays in my head by default when I'm not thinking of anything particular. It's just the fourth time in my life this has happened, but I'm loving it. Thank you for creating this masterpiece.
Damn im not the only one
Ever since the trailer came out, I've rewatched it over and over- especially for the music, so I'm glad you uploaded your own video too. Sounds heavenly.
same here
I’m glad I’m not the only one LMAOOO
I really hope Dream BBQ wins at least a few awards. I think this game will inspire all sorts of people.
Honestly just the trailer and all the ENA stuff we have so far is so inspiring to me 😌
Not just GoTY
But The Game of The Millenium (1000 years)
The way you and Joel Guerra have cooperated and made the music match with the animation perfectly is awesome!👏👏
+ Backroom Labyrinth ost gives me extreme suspense
The more I listen to this track, the more I find additional details that really add to the piece. The Backrooms Labyrinth leitmotif, the soprano vocals during the spatula ballerina scenes, the penultimate (what sounds like a) xylophone, and that descending sound at the end that's meant to mimic fireworks flying in the air (but also adds to the vibe of the piece overall, as the sound falls off at the end...) It's so GOOD I could listen to this forever!!
I think what really adds to this piece though is how it REALLY adheres to the theme it's named after (anemoia). I could have sworn I've heard some parts of the music and melody in your other songs, like espial, but I cannot for the life of me find it -- as if I've been misremembering a music experience I never had...
All in all, much and many kudos! Love your work, and can't wait to see what the project becomes! :D
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
BRO THE MIX WITH BACKROOM LABYRINTH JUST GIVES HUGE NOSTALGIA FROM THE OLDER ENA EPISODES...BRO..
MY. FAVORITE. ENA. OST. EVER!!!! It's just a masterpiece! My feelings about this track:
0:00 - 0:26 Mysterious beginning with such a good choir. Mph (It's sound of satisfaction)
0:27 - 0:40 I like that thing that when spatula woman appears it's playing high women voice and when appears this giant it's playing low brass tube. Grace soprano for a ballerina and mighty bass for a giant
0:40 - 0:46 - 6 seconds. Just a 6 seconds. And it's so amazing. This piano... I can't describe it! But for me the main atmosphere in this moment it's is grating. Just sending the chill down the spine...
0:47 - 1:04 - More intensive part. It's starting to speed up, but at the end of this part it's slowing and stopping. Just because it's gonna explode it the next part.
1:04 - 1:22 - CULMINATION!!! The drums are giving a rythm. Intensity of the track on its peak! It's feeling like something, that you can't describe. Perfect
1:22 - 1:34 - Reflection... With the BACKROOM LABYRINTH MELODY!! This is it! It's so homelike! Nostalgia for a place where you have never been! Anemoia! Only Minecraft OST and Studio Ghibli music caused this feeling!
1:34 - 2:03 - The ending. In the beginning of this part so good melody. I can't track it! It's beginning so fast and ending just in the same moment! I can't stop to repeat it again, because I'm trying to track it! But I can't! good!
bro rated the entire song
I LOVE IT TOO
Ending sounds like fireworks
@@mamodrawsart That's right, but when I talked about not readable part in ending I mean this melody. Only after that starting fireworks
I need a extended version of this masterpiece
"I'm homesick for a place that doesn't exist."
You never disappoint, this truly feels like a puzzle where all the pieces click perfectly!
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This song is so great I always want to come back and listen to it again, but the track is so complex it's actually hard to remember how it sounds, I'm so excited for the game release
The name for this song is absolutely perfect. We have yet to fully experience this chapter of ena and yet I feel like I’m remembering the whole game and reminiscing just from this.
0:59 THIS PART SCRATCHES AN ITCH DEEP IN MY BRAIN YOUR MUSIC IS SO GOOD ❤❤❤❤
So haunting, absolutely excellent work!
Anemoia doesnt even feel like nostolgia for something just seen for the first time, the song feels like bringing me to a place filled with anemoia
I love this song so much
'A nostalgia for I time you've never known' is a way that perfectly describes the mood ENA gives off, and the way you mixed in sniplets of your past songs emulate that feeling perfectly.
god damn I'm excited for Dream BBQ
"a nostalgia for a time you've never known, a past you never lived" is the perfect quote that describes the appeal and feeling ENA gives off.
I love this song it's so spot on and really enhanced the trailer. The backroom labyrinth part really was great.
This track is so unsettling, yet so amazing- Don't know how people achieve masterpieces like this. Absolutely awesome.
The music sounds like your on a quest to save the world
Not the world but the *entire* world
Honestly, to me it sounds like the hero finally arrived to save the world - but he was too late. And now it is a fragmented, almost warped mess of what it once was.
1:04 onwards is my favourite part. So overwhelming, yet it still inflicts nostalgia.
Finally! It's OFFICIALLY on UA-cam! This music is a banger!
Been watching yours, it's such a good song.
@@Epsilon_Rue Yeah it is! 😊 (and thanks! 😁)
I don’t know how you made a song this good, I’ve never been able to listen to a song on repeat and get the essence of when I first watched it every single time. I have listened to this song 3,000 times and I still feel like I’m listening to it for the first again and again and I can’t think of any word capable of describing how good this is.
SO EXCITED FOR THIS TO BE ON SPOTIFY i need this on loop constantly immediately
Use the power of buying it from Bandcamp and looping it locally. Then Buckland gets more money too
@@peanutkix ooh awesome to know!!! i’ve never used bandcamp before but i love supporting the artist however i can :)
@@peanutkixyeah, bandcamp is way better than spotify for artists.
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I've been listening to this in a playlist as background music when I work and it's only now that I've actually realised how hard this goes wtf!?
0:52 this part sounds like I've just discovered the power to destroy the world or something im in awe
the motifs mix so well into this piece, there's no way i can describe just how fantastic it is
Whoever did these vocals deserves a raise. Like, they go so high. Their voice must hurt
now THIS is the proper time to say, "why do i hear boss music?"
absolute banger
와 미쳤따...
노래부터 기대가 된다
This song is so amazing. Strangely it has a v similar vibe to me as the feeling I get from My Time from Omori, probably both being indie game trailer songs, but there are points, especially right before the drop, where things really remind me of My Time.
Maybe because both tunes are pretty disorganized and give a surreal "something's very wrong" vibe
@@spaghetti5914 probably a big contribution to that feeling yeah, with similar roles as a trailer theme it sticks in my mind for sure
Indie games are the BEST thing to ever happen!
I don't agree completely. Yeah My time and this song are similar, but with My Time I get more creepy vibes, like what should b a regular event went horribly wrong. With the other song, it feels like slipping into a dream; like my brain turned familiar sounds into jibberous as I lose consciousness.
@@yourhorseyepona7309 well yeah the intents are different but the general vibe and execution is similar
I just realized that that was a firework going off at 1:37, thats a really amazing detail alongside the fireworks afterwards
Interestingly, I added the fireworks first! Joel liked the sound and added the fireworks to the animation afterwards!
@@OliverBuckland That’s cool !!
This is exciting to see all this new stuff from you. Can't wait to hear the rest of this OST. You nailed the spooky vibe on this one.
This is something else, Joel G really did make an amazing choice to get you to make the soundtrack
i am maddened by how good this music is and can't wait to hear more
please don't ever stop creating
the thumbnail suggests there are multiple enas, one being the half polygon we all know, one looking a bit more human-like, and one looking corrupted
I can't describe how this makes me feel, and for this song to have been posted just an hour ago is such a fantastic coincidence. I learned about ENA literally half an hour ago, and I'm already enchanted. Thank you so much.
I have been listening to the dream bbq trailer on a loop i can't stop this is taking my brain on a trip is this what drugs feel like help
This is an unrepeatable masterpiece. When I first watched the trailer with headphones on I had to sit still for a few minutes just to take in what I just experienced. I'm not exaggerating.
This track has been stuck in my head since the Dream BBQ trailer released. I hope you're really proud of this one, man. It is INCREDIBLE!
the perfect mix of eletronic sounds and piano is impressive. literal chills, thank you for this.
The backroom labyrinth motif a 3/4ths through the song honestly gave me chills, it’s such a fantastical moment conveyed especially in the trailer, showing off the world. I can’t wait for the game to dropppp
This has been stuck in my head all day
This song was absolutely incredible! It really fit the vibe the trailer. I don't think ENA would be complete without the weirdness of your songs!
0:07 - 0:24 My absolute favorite part of this, I love harmonized vocals like that.
Discordant, yet harmonious
Incomprehensible, yet understanding
Worried, yet calm
Exhausted, yet full of energy
A mind is broken, and yet I have never been more sane
The world tears asunder, yet it is made whole
The oceans are drained, yet they are overflowing
The sky grows darker, yet the light still shines
Life is worth little, but worth so much
How strange, isn’t it
Old friend?
Can you hear it? That tune…
It is so familiar, yet I cannot recall a time when I had heard it before…
I ask once more
Can you hear it?
That tune, welcoming yet foreboding
Strange, yet normal
Unknown, yet familiar
It Approaches
the stage is set
Our little game draws near
Soon, it will all begin
All you must do
Is
C O M P R E H E N D
Ok Alan watts
>:D yooooo, this was great, my dude!! i love the mystery vibe you’ve got going on.
@@inkterstellar my thanks to you.
I love finding poetry in comment sections. This perfectly captured the feeling of this music. You are good at this. You should write more poetry if you already don't.
@@matildakristensen541 thank you. I actually do write for fun, on ao3 in fact
I have been showing this to all my friends and discord groups, and I have this saved on multiple Playlists. It's incredible. I'm so stoked for Dream BBQ.
This is amazing! Sounds like a final boss theme.
It doesn't even feel like it's been a year cannot wait for the game to come out and hear more of your music ngl!
ENA songs are their own genra
been listening to this non-stop since it was recommended to me on spotify, it got me into ENA and all your other music too. man, this is greatttt
I love it so much, I kinda gives me a BOTW feel to it, especially i first few seconds! And it's so nice hearing some parts Backroom Labyrinth again, Good job Oliver! :D
Yeah, I also get the BoTW feel, but the part before the beat drops for me. Very nice, can't stop listening tbh
My god, the chords are ripped straight out of the shrines, it’s so beautiful!
@@ukrainiansturgeon8561 I was thinking of the botw trailer
Bro this is way too fire bro my computer exploded I'm just typing on the ashes rn.
While I love EVRYTHING about ENA, its production, its visuals, the voice acting (god forbid I don’t mention the voice acting) I think out of all of it the music sets the mood so well and makes it go so much higher up in quality. Like think about this for a moment. If not for the iconic, amazingly made music, ENA would only be half if what it was
Props to you Oliver Buckland
I can't tell you how incredible this composition is. Oliver, you do a great job of conveying emotion through music. It feels like you're writing music not using instruments and synths, but using neural connections to evoke emotion directly. When I read the description, I realized that this is exactly what memories should sound like. Memories often represent the most memorable moments, the moments that evoked a great emotion in you. In this piece, all the elements sound as charismatic as possible. It is as if each instrument is an individual with its own story. Listening to this tune, the mind draws incredible pictures. I'm happy that you and joel g have found each other and made such an incredible product together. You are the ones who create modern art with modern thoughts and tools without relying on archaic notions of art. It's something you don't get tired of listening to for hours. This track + backroom labyrinth + espiral is constantly on my spotify playlist. I'm really happy I found you. Like a treasure chest hidden in a vast desert with no landmarks. I hope you keep releasing music, even though in a short time, I have become a fan of yours.
p.s. Special thanks for the wave-like synth at 0:40 . During the first listen I even got tears flowing because of how beautiful and harmonious it sounds.
The best way I can describe this song is like playing the wrong notes in a way that sounds enjoyable.
I need a dozen full albums, right now.
The amount of detail in this is amazing! Besides the music, the visualizers in this video are incredibly clever!
The grey side of ENA in DBBQ is her “blocky” side, and the grey visualizer is also blocky.
The red side of ENA is her “smooth” side, same with the visualizer.
Just a neat tidbit I noticed.
Also the hole in the ena looks most human
This is the feeling when you become an angel and see that heaven is abandoned.
TEARING UP AND SOBBING THIS MASTERPIECE HAS LITERALLY MADE ME CRY IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT I STARTED SOBBING BLESS THY SOUL FOR MAKING THIS IMMACULATE PIECE OF ART I WILL PRAISE THIS SONG AND HOLD IT DEARLY TO MY HEART I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I WILL SACRIFICE MYSELF FOR THIS SONG AMD PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS OLIVER BUCKLAND
I've been listening to this via the trailer nonstop since it dropped, this is such a hauntingly beautiful track. The vibes are just so otherworldly and perfect, it itches a really specific scratch in my brain and makes me feel something that no other artist has ever been able to make me feel. Can't wait for the game and more of your work!
i’ve only found the series within the last few days and i’m obsessed. especially this track, it brings me peace in a way i cant describe. i forgot how much i enjoy that surrealist stuff out there. i need a word more than peace tbh, listening to this on repeat makes me feel like a massive weight has been lifted from my body
The music has made my soul mad, crying for more, it needs more, this song has taken my soul, but it is happy now
This so charmingly horrifying,
gives you a glimpse into a truly corrupted and broken world.
Beautiful!
I know I said I liked the implications of this theme on Dead God Graveyard, but that leitmotif has very firmly cemented itself as "some feeling of unreality." Using the theme in a track titled "anemoia," you've basically created a musical shortcut for that weird, disjointed, and yet somehow uniquely coherent feeling of everything being ever so slightly left of center when it comes to ENA and their world. Those four chords at 1:23 are h a u n t i n g in the best possible way, and I cannot wait to see what becomes of this pocket of an unremembered, but not forgotten past. Fantastic job, Oliver.
주인공이 절망적인 상황을 마주하고 자신에게 처해진 상황을 바꿀려고 노력하지만 노력을 하면할수록 자기자신을 잃어가는 그런 느낌이다
The dream bqq trailer is incredible but can we really talk how gorgeous this track is?!
First part starts misterious, then there's that slow clicking clock beat, that whenever converges with the warm and melancholic piano notes and the sanctum like chorus, it embraces you into an uncertain nostalgic feeling. The bass pressence gets slightly louder but does not opacate the main melody, the chorus may go slightly unsetling but the new intrument added joins right in to keep you enticed into buckland's magic.
Then, the chorus hits that high pitch and the bass slaps hard at your ears, trembling and distorting, awakening a sense of pain we didn't know but wanted to forget, like intrusive thoughts at 2 am. The chorus adds a male voice, and the whole track transforms from magical melancholy to a growing feeling of regret and dread. The piano goes up scale, reminding you of Espial(track I personally love) or Hourglass Meadow, but instead of sounding happy or quirky, it's hard hitting and serious. Familiar synth sounds join the whole enseble in this goal to submerge us into a false sense of hope, like propmting us to try and change something that already went south long, long ago.
All this insane and gorgeous musical trip AND ITS ONLY THE FIRST MINUTE FOR GRYING OUT LOUD!!!
Then comes the second part: opens with drums welcoming us into a macabre mad dance, full known that this musical experience became an adiction and we are all indulging on it. Then stops, Backroom labyrinth samples, the chorus going to it's intial sanctum like rythm. You realize the intial clicking clock beat was from Backroom all along, and you feel for it's enticing nostalgic magic power on you (or at least I was lol). But before you get too comfortable Buckland goes wild and reminds you this is a new experience, almost giving you a hint of whats to come but bam. it ended, leaving you again in misterious supense.
so TL;DR.
This track is insane and I fucking love it!!!
Underrated fucking comment for sure.
Fantastic analysis
"Endacopia's music trailer analysis: very normal music showing gameplay"
-me, probably
Been a fan of your work for a few years now, always a good day for more Oliver Buckland music!
Saw the trailer today and am already hyped but I gotta say that your music was my favorite part of the trailer.
It is such an inspiring piece
i love u oliver buckland thank you for making the greatest soundtrack for the entirety of the Ena series + game u are the best
0:41 feels so incredible, it messing with my brain in just the right way.
It took me 30 times to realize that this was a firework 1:35
My brother: you keep playing it over and over again what is that!?
The music I keep playing for 288292729272937837383822th time:
this is the strangest and the best audio in the whole universe.I listen to it everyday, it is just..perfect.And the fact that this was in the ENA trailer makes me just happier.
This song is so hard to describe, calming but horrific
I constantly come back to this... So entrancing and beautiful; not many songs AT ALL bring on this feeling, and none of them do it so well. Thank you for this beautiful masterpiece...it alone makes the game a must buy (not that the game doesnt look amazing in its own right, but the music is just awe inspiring)
I NEED MORE MUSIC LIKE THIS ASAP OMG