Bird World is an excellent video game soundtrack that isn’t actually for a video game
May 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Bird World’s dreamy opening is the kind main menu track I leave running while I finish my chores. At least, I would if it were part of a real game. Leon Chang’s newly released album is a concept album of sorts, a 12-song soundtrack to a video game that doesn’t actually exist.
Chang, who goes by @leyawn on Twitter, has been posting weird mash-ups (like Joey from Friends repeating “How you doin’” over the show’s theme song) to game-themed remixes (an excellent version of the Neko Atsume theme) on his SoundCloud for years.
Bird World is his first complete album. He began releasing songs over the last year and a half before gathering them into a full album this week.
“I wanted to make a thematic album,” he says. “A video game soundtrack…
