About the song
"Through The Years And Far Away" is performed by Low and appears in Hoshi no Koe, released internationally as Voices of a Distant Star and written in Japanese as ほしのこえ. In the film’s music lineup, it is ED 1, the first ending theme, for the CoMix Wave Films production. Low performs the song as a real band rather than an in-story character act.
The song plays as a subdued J-Pop piece built on a slow pulse and a deliberately spacious arrangement. Its phrasing feels measured rather than showy, with the vocal line carrying the melody in a restrained, intimate register. That calm surface gives the track a reflective weight and keeps its emotional emphasis on distance, waiting, and suspended time.
Those qualities fit Hoshi no Koe, where communication stretches across war and interplanetary separation. As an ending theme, the song leaves the story on a note of aftershock, turning from spectacle back toward the feeling of messages delayed by distance.