Throbbing electronic beats smeared in neon and blood. Hotline Miami's full soundtrack is one of those rare cases where the music IS the game. "Hydrogen" is the track everyone remembers, that relentless synth pulse pushing you through room after room.
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"Crystals" brings a cold, crystalline shimmer that somehow makes the carnage feel beautiful. "Deep Cover" and "Horse Steppin" ground things in that late-80s haze, analog and grimy. "Silver Lights" opens the album with a sense of calm that the rest of the soundtrack spends its time destroying.
The whole tracklist reads like a who's-who of the synthwave and electronic underground circa 2012. Perturbator, Jasper Byrne, Sun Araw, M.O.O.N. If you somehow haven't heard this one yet, stop what you're doing and press play.