Warbling carnival organ grinding through off-kilter circus melodies. Freak Show is a 1994 CD-i title from the Residents, and the whole thing plays like a sideshow tent that sounds deeply wrong. "Everyone Comes to the Freak Show" sets the tone with lurching, almost drunk fairground energy.
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"Harry the Head" and "Jello Jack the Boneless Boy" feel more like audio portraits than game music. Each one twisted and specific to its freak. Nine tracks of avant-garde carnival horror from a band already famous for being unsettling on what might be the CD-i's weirdest release.
Barely game music and that is part of the appeal. If you want to hear what a haunted funhouse sounds like on dying 90s hardware, this delivers.