Designed for VR and you can feel it in every track. The spatial quality of "The Singing Pipes" is almost unsettling, these resonant metallic tones bouncing around like you're actually standing in a flooded tunnel. "A Mother's Love (Yana's Theme)" brings a fragile warmth that VR makes painfully intimate, close enough to break your heart.
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Then the bonus Mongolian tracks at the end come out of nowhere. "Mongolian Longsong" especially, just this vast open vocal performance that contrasts the claustrophobic metro tunnels perfectly. The whole soundtrack oscillates between suffocating dread and moments of startling beauty.
If you own a VR headset and haven't experienced Metro in that space, you're missing the definitive way to hear this.