One listen.

Threw myself in, had to play catch up for a bit and got there in the end. Not great, but parts of the song are covered well enough.

Masashi Hamauzu’s (浜渦 正志) “March of the Dreadnoughts” (“ドレッドノート大爆進！”) is from Final Fantasy XIII‘s soundtrack, Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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Jaunty strings and percussion strike out brightly. Dims as keys and more percussion comes in, then brightens once more. The sounds then expand, sweep across and move through everything, moving around each other and spreading further before a quick military-type percussive strike plays out.

There’s a return to the first section, and it’s a bit livelier. That newer percussion continues, and it drives underneath, and everything sweeps once more.

A variation on the beginning. A little quieter, strings are more prominent, but it builds and stays firm and rigid, before once more spreading out into a smoothness; a flow that continues on, and it pushes the sweeping and dramatic, and it looks into the serious, but there remains some fun.

The sounds then fade, and the song ends.