WILT_2025-34

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 17 Aug 2025 to 23 Aug 2025.

1. EARth – Sawano Hiroyuki
2. ESIRNUS – Sawano Hiroyuki
3. MANhUNTer – Sawano Hiroyuki
4. GIx2 – Sawano Hiroyuki
5. car5p3 PENELOPE – Sawano Hiroyuki
6. XI – Sawano Hiroyuki
7. TRACER – Sawano Hiroyuki, Benjamin
8. [I] – Sawano Hiroyuki
9. The Intrepid – Akira Senju
10. Embrace Your Dreams – Alex Moukala
11. Survival – TesseracT
12. Tourniquet – TesseracT
13. Utopia – TesseracT
14. Cages – TesseracT
15. ecdysis – Deftones
16. infinite source – Deftones

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2025-34

Notes

A lot of this week’s playlist was informed by the OST for the movie, Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash (2021). It was the second time I had watched the movie and it was much more appreciated the second time around. The movie is a continuation of that events that happened in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988) and is set in the UC timeline, which is the franchise’s principal timeline. I’d never watched Char’s Counterattack or Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986–1987) which would actually be required watches to fully understand the plot of Hathaway’s Flash, but thank goodness for the Internet and watching some abridged versions, I was able to re-watch the movie with more background and new perspectives.

The portrayal of mech or mobile suit battles in Hathaway’s Flash is probably some of the most realistic I’ve seen in the franchise with a great appreciation for mechanical design, atmospheric combat and dogfighting, and the actual pilot skill required to pilot these giant battle suits. Coupled with a soundtrack that soars both in terms of orchestral arrangements or electronic beats and synthscapes, it does created a backdrop of grounded science fiction. 

That appreciation then led me to a re-listen of TesseracT’s Polaris / Erai (2015 / 2016) for it’s very grounded approach to progressive metal where you can fully appreciate the band’s expressive musicality but paired and tempered with the acute sense of composing to create both beautiful and haunting melodies, as well as tight syncopated grooves.

Finally, Deftones finally released their new album, private music (2025) and while I’ve only listened through it once, I selected some tracks that were not my mind is a mountain, which was the single they released earlier and I still absolutely adore.