Piano and strings fading in over silence, like sunlight breaking through collapsed concrete. Fallout 4's full original soundtrack from 2015 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC is Inon Zur doing what he does best: making desolation feel emotional.
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"The Commonwealth" establishes that wide-open wasteland tone right away, lonely and vast. "Wandering - The Blasted Forest" comes in two parts and both carry this careful, exploratory tension. You are always listening for something moving in the trees.
"Combat Ready" snaps into full aggressive mode, all percussion and urgency when the raiders finally spot you. "Of Green and Grey" has a quiet beauty to it. The kind of track that plays when you find a settlement and think maybe things could be okay.
If you want to feel the full emotional range of wandering post-nuclear Boston without the radiation poisoning, put this on.