NOIRというアニメをPVを観てるかの様にスタイリッシュに彩る名曲群。ラテン語などを駆使したヴォーカル曲、不思議だったり荘厳だったりする中にも素晴らしく綺麗なメロディを奏でるインスト曲。どこを取っても非の打ち所が無い。貝田さんのハイトーンヴォーカルが炸裂する、戦闘時に流れる「Salva Nos」と「Canta per Me」は必聴の名曲。もちろんCD単体でも素晴らしいが個人的にはアニメを観てから聴いて欲しいと思う作品。
I don't usually go for soundtracks. But by the time I'd finished watching the first Noir DVD, I thought "I want this music" - mournful romance; Church Latin sung to a techno beat; melancholy atmospherics. Inevitably it has the intro and outro tracks, which are the weakest of the material, book-ending Yuki Kajiura's masterful work. This is a CD that's rarely left my player since I got it - though it might get displaced by Vol. 2 that's on its way now from amazon.com