Deep ambient drones humming through the vacuum of space. Elite: Dangerous on PC and Mac has a soundtrack built for staring at star systems at 3AM and questioning your place in the galaxy. "Lonely Pulsar" is exactly what it sounds like, cold and vast and somehow beautiful.
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"The Galactic Rose" opens up into something warmer, like finding a nebula after hours of empty black. "Remembering Sol" carries this homesick ache that is wild for a space sim. The Federal Space tracks in general have more melody and structure, giving you something to hold onto between jumps.
Then the neutral tracks just let you float. The whole thing is organized by space territory, which is such a cool structural choice. For anyone who has ever alt-tabbed out of a cockpit and still wanted the void humming in their ears.