The second volume of Granado Espada's official soundtrack continues SoundTeMP and their collaborators' gorgeous fusion of orchestral grandeur and electronic production. Composer Kim Jungsoo and the team lean even further into the game's colonial-era fantasy aesthetic with tracks like "Tales from the South" and "Valle Ocultado," weaving Spanish guitar textures and sweeping strings into the MMO's distinctive sonic identity.
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The Latin flair that defined the first volume is very much alive here, but there's a broader palette at work. What makes this second volume particularly interesting is how it balances mood pieces with more driving material.
"Tempest" delivers the kind of intense, pulse-quickening energy you'd expect from the game's frantic multi-character combat, while "Clouds" and "Dream Machine" pull back into something more atmospheric and contemplative.
"Red Shores" opens the album with a sense of vast, uncharted territory that perfectly captures the spirit of New World exploration. The inclusion of remix tracks like "Senorita (Mr Sam Vision)" and "In Your Eyes (Blue Mix)" adds a welcome electronic edge, showing that Granado Espada's music translates surprisingly well into club-adjacent territory.
The "Summer Queen" track appears twice here, likely in different arrangements, which speaks to how central certain themes became to the game's expanding world. For fans of MMO soundtracks that actually dare to have a strong cultural identity rather than defaulting to generic fantasy fare, this is essential listening.