A curated mixtape of French indie artists that gives this 2017 PC game the feeling of stumbling through someone's personal music library. Mothlight pulls tracks from Komiku, Monplaisir, Soft and Furious, and several others, and the result is this eclectic collage that shouldn't cohere but somehow does.
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Komiku carries the heaviest load with tracks like "Fight, run, breath deeply" bringing frantic chiptune energy and "Battle with the childhood friend" hitting with surprising emotional weight. Monplaisir's contributions lean dreamier, "Nous serons tous seuls" floating in with this melancholic warmth.
Then Soft and Furious shows up with "Shredded Trauma" and things get noisy and raw. The vaporwave-styled "Ｃｏｒｎｅｒ" from Anonymous420 just sitting there in the middle of everything. French titles scattered throughout give the whole thing this art-house quality, like a mixtape someone made on a Parisian train.
If you like your game soundtracks assembled rather than composed, with personality bleeding out of every seam, Mothlight's curation is worth your time.