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Love SQ the first installment in Square Enix's SQ album series

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Love SQ the first installment in Square Enix's SQ album series
Square Enix first published the arrangement album "Love SQ" to compact disc in November of 2009 in Japan. The first installment in the "SQ" series of cover albums, it was followed by the themed compilations Chill SQ, More SQ, and SQ Chips, among others.

Arrangements from the Love SQ compilation by Japanese pop musicians include the main theme from Chrono Trigger by Novoiski and "Frog's Theme" from Chrono Trigger by Sexy-Synthesizer, "Eternal Wind" from Final Fantasy III by De De Mouse, and "Battle on the Big Bridge" from Final Fantasy V by →Pia-no-jaC←.

The arrangement album ships on compact disc from CDJapan, while the digital release is streaming on Apple Music. Excerpts are on YouTube, courtesy of the publisher.


From the Square Enix Music product page:
A cover album of remixed and newly arranged tracks from famous SQUARE ENIX titles including FINAL FANTASY, Romancing SaGa, Chrono Trigger, and Legend of Mana. Ten artists, from a whole host of industries from fashion to music, including PE'Z, Piano Jack, DE DE MOUSE, and GOODLUCK HEIWA worked on the album.

You can really feel just how much everyone who took part respected the original music they were reworking. These tracks are guaranteed to strike a chord with people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Take a trip down memory lane as you recall how sticky you made your controllers by touching them after feasting on candy, how you used to write your name on the back of all those cartridges, how you blew inside game carts before slotting them into the console, and how you read that one strategy guide so much the pages fell out. Ah, the good old days...
Apple Music - Love SQ / SQ Music Collections (Digital)

CDJapan - Love SQ compact disc