also the final boss theme of the new touhou owns, even if i hate how ZUN turned a balanced resource system into more broken lifespam

haha no it's cool if you thought it wasn't interesting, different people find different things memorable. personally i think it's catchy as hell but that's just me

personally i could never do your rating system because i find it hard to put the albums i really like into tiers. it's all context-dependent whether one is more enjoyable than another, for 4.5s and 5s

worst ratings on RYM

2 new things i found that you might like: ...To Apeiron and Youth (The Castle of Illusions). both have that same demo magic as the Catacomb EP you like.

also, i'm curious, what about native construct did you like for it to get a 1.5?

"In fact, it's quite baffling that the best song on there should be something he apparently threw together in such a short time."

Stars was not written during the Toontrack thing. He had it prepared, wrote it just as he did any other song.

Nobody writes AND records a song in two hours - in a random studio at that - with lyrics that are complete and all instruments ready to go. That's pretty much possible only if you're a guitar-strumming indie rock hipster writing a simplistic, derivative hippie song about love and peace. Besides, he said as much in interviews.