anemoia 

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...

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

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!

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

Chills every time Backroom Labyrinth kicks in

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

This sounds like your phobias are singing you a lullaby

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

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

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!

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.

The amount of goosebumps I have right now is immense

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.

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

I’ve been on a Buckland kick recently. This shall slot nicely into my playlist...

Fantastic song

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

'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

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.

I was in awe listening to this in the Dream BBQ trailer. Your music leaves a mark.

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.

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!

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

I really hope Dream BBQ wins at least a few awards. I think this game will inspire all sorts of people.

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.

You never disappoint, this truly feels like a puzzle where all the pieces click perfectly!

Finally! It's OFFICIALLY on RU-vid! This music is a banger!

0:53 Piano kicking up just gets my heart pumping. Very fitting for ENA.

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 music sounds like your on a quest to save the world

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.

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

"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.

So haunting, absolutely excellent work!

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.

This track is so unsettling, yet so amazing- Don't know how people achieve masterpieces like this. Absolutely awesome.

Whoever did these vocals deserves a raise. Like, they go so high. Their voice must hurt

I love this song it's so spot on and really enhanced the trailer. The backroom labyrinth part really was great.

now THIS is the proper time to say, "why do i hear boss music?" absolute banger

This is something else, Joel G really did make an amazing choice to get you to make the soundtrack

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!

SO EXCITED FOR THIS TO BE ON SPOTIFY i need this on loop constantly immediately

the motifs mix so well into this piece, there's no way i can describe just how fantastic it is

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 is some studio ghibli stuff

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

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.

와 미쳤따... 노래부터 기대가 된다

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 am maddened by how good this music is and can't wait to hear more please don't ever stop creating

0:33 HOLY, THIS PART IS ENCHANTING

1:04 onwards is my favourite part. So overwhelming, yet it still inflicts nostalgia.

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

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.

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 so charmingly horrifying, gives you a glimpse into a truly corrupted and broken world. Beautiful!

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!

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

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 perfect mix of eletronic sounds and piano is impressive. literal chills, thank you for this.

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 just realized that that was a firework going off at 1:37, thats a really amazing detail alongside the fireworks afterwards

"I'm homesick for a place that doesn't exist."

Bro this is way too fire bro my computer exploded I'm just typing on the ashes rn.

God, I can't wait until I find the full ost on spotify.

0:07 - 0:24 My absolute favorite part of this, I love harmonized vocals like that.

The opening parts giving me strong Spirited Away vibes holy shit this is gorgeous.

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.

My mistake I thought it was anemia

this song hurts me in a way i find irresistible

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 really hope this project ends up like museum of anything goes

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 is the feeling when you become an angel and see that heaven is abandoned.

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!!!

My brother: you keep playing it over and over again what is that!? The music I keep playing for 288292729272937837383822th time:

This song is so hard to describe, calming but horrific

ONG THIS IS SO GOOD I CANT WAIT FOR DREAM BBG AND OLIVER BUCKLAND MUSIC IM GONNA CEYR

This song makes me feel a slight tugging of the strings on my soul.

I love how this song sounds chaotic dreamy and refined all at the same time.

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

why is this so fire

This track is hauntingly beautiful and powerful, seriously good work!

Just realize at the first part you can hear some frequencies when you turn on/off old cube Tv. It sounds awesome!!!!

1:05 idk why but that reminded me of "Don't Look At Me That Way" by Kikuo

I really love the Leitmotifs! makes me remind of past songs that were present in Ena's stories

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

Really creamy. Everything complements and fits the style of the ENA character in a really cute and quirky way. I love the character and the songs that were made for her because they were made to express her and her rich world As for the game, I am excited about it and it will be an icon in my memory

I love this so much, I think the music is one of the main reasons I keep coming back to the trailer Incredible job

I really love the ENA series bc its nostalgic of a lot of 2000s time frame games with sureal elements, and the absolute itch those animations scratched in my brain bc sureal art is my all time favourite art form, there is so much you can do with it. And all the music so far has just been popping off in the series. This one really gets that tich in the back of my skull there is just so much emotion within it and aaaa. (For refrence pajama man sam was one of my favourite sureal kids games from back then. Others like franbow and little miss fortune are also some good sureal games that have been produced through the years.) Something about all the different art elements of 3d, 2d, different styles and just man its so good, and hands down this music is going straight into brain jail for the next few months so I can listen to it on repeat.

hearing this for the first time I was overwhelmed with goosebumps and a weird sense of nostalgia. absolutely outstanding work