It’s catchy and deep with descriptive detail at the same time. I couldn’t imagine a better theme to describe sledding down a sparkling icy hill in the night. “Colda” for Frozen Hillside is a great example of how tracks really give listeners the feel of an environment or, rather, a feel of racing through that environment. The same thing goes for every theme on this album and their respective levels it’s just that some do it more generically than others. No matter how much “Plantes” skips through different moods in this piece, it still manages to capture the essence of racing through a green field. This is the only Kirby album I am aware of that barely has ANY repetitive themes on it. It starts out somewhat familiar with a fast piping bassoon in the background, but then the theme just starts going all over the place and it doesn’t really come back for a long time. The album starts off with a theme called “Plantes” or, for those who played the game, the Fantasy Meadows stage theme. There’s really no “bad” music on the album, just a few more forgettable or generic elements, but there’s plenty to make up for that. At times the “orchestration” gets a bit generic and forgettable. The mature sound may very well span from the crisp orchestrated sounding themes (still MIDI), but it’s also possible because of the influence of Shogo Sakai who joins Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando this time around.

It has this unusual mature sound for a Kirby game while still managing to be upbeat and catchy most of the time.

The album manages to be unlike any other Kirby soundtrack out there, while still seeming very familiar. Although this compilation of Kirby Air Ride melodies is relatively short, it still has much to offer to fans and new listeners alike.

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