LOOT RASCALS SOUNDTRACK by Grandmaster Gareth Eerie vocals meet with guiros and castanets while digital dobanis and xylophones tinkle out counter-melodies. A rapidly moving kaleidoscope of plastic bucket-sounding synths, slide whistles, and kazoos to match the brightly color Superflat style of this card-based retro-themed space title, the score is an energetic frolicker with a style ultimately all its own. Legendary Pink Dots crossed with mu-Ziq, chiptunes and glitch. Opening with “in the Flame,” a lovely Ladyhawke-era styled duet sung by Korb and Ashley Barrett, the album features over three dozens cues that evoke like on the open road as a star-faring soul-redeemer.įrom baroque harpsichord pieces like “Life Sentence” to a capella ballads like “Mourning Song” to the Celtic folk prog rock of “Knights of the Sea” all the way into drum ‘n’ bass and heavy metal excursions like “Thrash Pack,” it’s a seemingly ill-fitting assemblage of disparate parts that manages to fall together into a solid whole – not unlike the game’s own unexpected blend of sports game and visual novel. Much like the game’s familiar yet strange “dying earth” setting, Darren Korb’s work on the Pyre soundtrack takes a number of familiar genres and fits them together in a fresh way that evokes common tropes of fantasy and science fiction without seeming quite like anything that has come before. So here are IGR’s: Top 10 Best Indie Game Music Scores and Soundtracks of 2017 10. You will likely be inspired, entertained, carried away and even gobsmacked at all the musical twists and turns that game-motivated music can manifest. We do hope that this list might introduce you to some of the works that may otherwise be overlooked and that you listen to them as a whole. In choosing this year’s best original soundtracks, we considered how the music supported the game for which it was written, but more importantly what stood alone as an extraordinary product of that collaboration. That is not to say that video game music doesn’t share complex orchestral passages, deep sound design, multi-layered texture and heaps of nuance. What’s so exciting about video game music is that its pairing with games leads to a variety of themes and styles that have decidedly different structure than traditional cinematic scores. ![]() InfinityWaltz contributed substantially to the preparation of this article.
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