Piano notes falling through fog and static. Alan Wake's score is the reason that game crawls under your skin and stays there. Welcome to Bright Falls opens with this false calm that makes everything after it feel wrong. Taken by the Night goes full horror momentum, strings and percussion chasing you through the dark.
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And The Clicker has this quiet, almost tender quality that somehow makes it the most unsettling track on the whole album. Petri Alanko wrote music that sounds like the Pacific Northwest at 3AM. Dread wrapped in beauty, fog rolling over everything.
If you ever wanted to feel like a novelist losing his mind in rural Washington, this is your playlist.