Jazz-noir smoke curling through a dream you are not sure you want to wake up from. Honkai: Star Rail's Flapper Sinthome Part 1 is a massive 2024 soundtrack dump across mobile, PS5, and PC that goes deep into a Penacony dreamscape.
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"Ace in the Hole" and "The Big Sleep" pull from old detective fiction energy, and you can hear that influence dripping off every note. "The Fool Always Rings Twice" is the track name that made me stop scrolling. "Wet Dog" is on here too and somehow it fits.
The whole thing bounces between cabaret jazz, psychological tension, and dreamlike ambient pieces like "Lucid Dreams" and "Latent Content of Dream." Tracks named after Freudian concepts sitting next to tracks named after noir novels.
If you ever wanted a soundtrack that sounds like falling asleep in a 1920s speakeasy inside someone else's brain, this is that and then some.