Dark, unsettling atmosphere built on early 2000s PC synth and slow dread. ABANDONER's soundtrack reads like a psychological thriller novel through its track titles alone, and the music matches that energy note for note. "Nightmare I" through "Nightmare IV" threads through the tracklist like a recurring bad dream that keeps evolving and getting worse.
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"Trauma" sits in the middle of the album doing exactly what its name promises, heavy and suffocating. Then "See You Again" at the end carries this strange ambiguity, like maybe things resolve or maybe they absolutely don't.
Track names like "A Man Can Only Die Once" and "Speak Well of The Dead" tell you everything about the tone. Put this on at 2AM with the lights off if you want your room to feel like an unfinished mystery.