Gridania music.

[Teakwood]

The instrumentation and sampling really reminds me of FFXII, and I love it. I -love- the Hobbit-ish segue even more. Admittedly I also love the -current- BGM, especially when it shifts into the Humoresque progression (shouting out To Zanarkand?), but I've kept the new BGM running on loop a few times already just to listen to. Absolutely can't wait to hear more of the game's music, it's honestly one of the things I'm looking forward to the most, as silly as that sounds. (I just love new soundtracks! I've got the 1.xx soundtrack safely on my playlist, I DEMAND MOAR.)

[Ingolf]

Has anyone ripped the BGM yet?

[Galliano]

I like it! I think it has a Studio Ghibli feel to it, especially "The Secret World of Arrietty"

[Zeno-Ira]

Fits Gridania well.

[faris]

I thought the music's beautiful. It's a massive improvement to Gridania's current theme.

[Valmonte]

I like it as well its slower and more drawn out the way a BGM should be.

[Atoli]

I like it a lot.
It fits the new Gridania and it just sounds so perfect for it. You can really feel that it was written for those sunbathed fields of flowers; you can almost smell the flowers and feel a soft breeze when you close your eyes~

While I liked the old music it often felt kind of..disconnected to the area. I think it was really noticeable that Uematsu often had to work with only descriptions or artworks.

Also..I think some people mistake "Final Fantasy feeling" with "always the same old recycled melodies".
If a piece of music is beautiful and fitting and gives me the feeling of this beautiful world out there that I want to explore, isn't that the final fantasy right there?