User blog comment:Absolute Configuration/General thoughts on the Volume 3 Soundtrack/@comment-27425734-20160507173207

Volume One's vocal tracks have been the best so far to me; namely, the trailer music and the opening song. Volume Two's weren't bad, but I personally couldn't listen to its songs on repeat unlike Volume One. Volume Three's vocal songs were very meh for me, but I thought the instrumental songs definitely improved as you noted yourself.

However, I still can't say that the instrumentals are anything close to the work of say, Yoko Kanno (Ghost in the Shell, Zankyou no Terror, etc.), or Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist, and Guilty Crown) both of whom do a phenomenal job on both instrumental and vocal music in my opinion. In particular, I found it grating, and unnecessary in the Volume One soundtrack when Nora's line of "I'm the queen of the castle!" interrupted what could have been the best instrumental track on the soundtrack (One of the two Emerald Forest pieces, I believe) but was instead the worst for me due to how that line of dialogue ruined the entire song.

In the end, I would still probably buy/download the Volume Three soundtrack, but I'm hesitant to say it would match the playability I could find in the previous soundtracks.