Soft piano over static rain. Contrasta is a 2009 Windows indie title with a soundtrack subtitled Monochrome Fairytale, and it earns that name completely. "Torrential Rain" opens with this pensive, muted atmosphere that sticks to your clothes, and "Sword Dance of Ice and Flame" jolts you awake with unexpected intensity.
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The whole thing lives in this grayscale emotional space. "A Collector's Melancholy" is the kind of track that makes you stare out a window for twenty minutes. Small PC games from this era sometimes had composers pouring everything into eight or twelve tracks.
You can feel that here, especially when "Monochrome Fairytale" closes it all out so quietly. Put this on when you want something moody and forgot what silence sounds like.