Creaking metal and distant violins echoing through flooded art deco hallways. BioShock's original score strips away the licensed 1950s jazz and leaves you with the raw ambient horror underneath, and honestly it's even more unsettling on its own.
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"Ocean on His Shoulders" opens with that iconic main theme, all weight and foreboding. "Cohen's Masterpiece" captures Sander Cohen's deranged artistic ego in sound. "Haunted Slums" and "Diseased Medical" are pure environmental dread, the kind of tracks that made you creep through Rapture with a wrench up.
This is PS3/360 era atmosphere done right. Twenty-four tracks of a failed underwater utopia rotting from the inside. If you ever need to remember why Rapture got under your skin before you even saw your first splicer, press play.