So: what are everyone's expectations for this album going to be? As in hopes for artist representation, quality of the extras, and general quality of the music?
I want to see an equal balance of material from every sound team member, all across the board. Shota Kageyama occupied too much space on the B/W album, making a bunch of disappointing and/or lackluster tracks amidst some great ones—really, though, it prevented Go Ichinose and Hitomi Sato from expanding their musical experimentation with the series that had started to gain traction in Diamond and Pearl. Ichinose did the battle music arrangements on the last album for the most part, and those were the best battle tracks I've yet heard in a Pokemon game soundtrack—evidence enough for him to pump out more of his interesting, well-developed material.
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