Thick, sorrowful strings opening into something vast and broken. Fallout 4's deluxe vinyl soundtrack collects Inon Zur's score for the PS4/Xbox One/PC entry that dropped you into the Commonwealth. "The Commonwealth" itself is this slow, heavy piece that makes you feel the scale of the ruined Boston skyline.
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"Wandering - The Blasted Forest, Pt. 1" is pure isolation, footsteps on dead leaves energy. "Combat Ready" shifts hard into percussive aggression when raiders show up. And then "Lonely Walls" pulls you back to that quiet sadness of picking through someone's abandoned home.
The whole score bounces between war drums and grief. Probably the most emotional Fallout score when you actually sit and listen to it outside the game.