Ambient dread and frontier tension from a Half-Life comic that somehow got its own scored soundtrack. A Place in the West is a fan-made comic series set in the Half-Life universe, released on Steam in 2017, and this Vol 1 score treats it like a film.
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"New Franklin Part I" establishes this post-Combine frontier settlement with dusty, sparse composition, almost western in feel. "Missing Children" shifts the mood into something desperate and parental. "The Ubdisha Part I & II" goes full alien territory, channeling Xen through atmospheric sound design.
The three "Amb" interludes stitch everything together like breathing room between chapters. "Ghosts" closes the album and it lingers. The title earns itself. If you didn't know a Half-Life comic book had a legitimate soundtrack worth hearing on its own, now you do.