Grand, playful orchestral music that sounds like a storybook you can actually climb inside. Broken Age is Double Fine's adventure game and Peter McConnell's score carries the whole thing on its back. "March in the Clouds" is pure wonder, big and bright and floating.
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"Let's Build a Bomb" somehow makes destruction sound whimsical. And "Marek Revealed" flips the entire emotional script with a dark intensity that earns the twist. The two-character structure means the music constantly shifts between Vella's earthy warmth and Shay's sterile spaceship hum.
"Cloud Colony Arrival" into "Welcome to Meriloft" is one of the best one-two punches in any adventure game soundtrack. For anyone who thinks orchestral game scores peaked in the 90s and needs to be proven wrong.