I'm really struggling to articulate exactly what I'm looking for? I don't use streaming services (which would feed me things I don't know?) and I would like to drill further into a niche I don't have a name for.

I have two very specific rules so far:

1. I need to be able to easily buy it as an album (preferably digitally, but I do love me a CD)
2. I need to be able to listen to the album first but not via a streaming service

a half rule is "no lyrics"; this can easily be broken but I'm also not at all able to articulate what's allowed to break it

genre-wise I don't really know what to call it, lo-fi? mmaybe chiptune? synthy I guess but only sometimes? Albums I have that have similar vibes to what I want more of:

• Zelda & Chill
• Fastfall (the Dustforce OST)
• Beneath a Frozen Cloud (Ever Towards a Better Yesterday)
• A Day Without Rain (Enya)
• bill wurtz's jazz

I don't think it's available anywhere not streaming, but OlliOlli World's sound track would also fit this list if I could own it.

Some of this is video game, but specifically games I'm attached to. I would feel the need to play the game if it's a game I have not done so that may or may not be a good rec 🤷

and i dont mean that in a good way. like, am i supposed to expect… botw again? ok. why not just play botw again then? what is the actual gimmick/hook of totk? i figured they were gonna announce co-op or something but all we’ve gotten are cinematic shots of a very similar hyrule, seems very boring so far

before i state more thoughts about hollow knight, which i'm still going through, i've just want to say that peanut choco bars are amazing!