2014-04-07 4:01:48 ¶ ●

RATING: 7 / 13 – this activity has been a nice diversion

Welcome to Jailbreak Vol 1, the unofficial soundtrack for the brief webcomic of the same name. I rather like the implication of more albums to come for this 134-page comic, Normally I’d be 100% sure that this was facetious, but in this fandom, who knows.

As someone whose first real game console was an NES, naturally I have a soft spot in my heart for chiptune music. This album delivers a megadose of 8-bit fundamental waveform mania. Some of these songs could have been pulled straight from an old game’s background ambiance.

That being said, by no means is it perfect. It’s one-dimensional (duh), and it loses a bit of steam in the middle tracks. But it’s a fun album to listen to.

Since it’s an unofficial compilation, it’s available for full download completely free of charge: you can download it in MP3 format (as well as some bonus NSF files, which can be played back in native chiptune format) here from GameFreakDude’s DropBox.

Click here for individual song reviews for Jailbreak Vol 1.