Suffocating, claustrophobic audio design that crawls under your skin and stays there. Mouthwashing is the 2024 psychological horror game set on a stranded cargo ship, and the soundtrack by Martin Kvale nails the slow spiral of a crew falling apart in deep space.
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"The Windows Are Plastic" has this droning unease that perfectly captures the feeling of being trapped inside something that's supposed to protect you. "Like A Cyst" is visceral even as a title, and the music matches with pulsing, uncomfortable textures.
"Confrontation" escalates with this awful tension that mirrors the game's narrative turning points. Between those gut-punch tracks, "Banter" and "What's New On The Radio" provide these moments of normalcy that somehow feel worse.
Thirty-three tracks documenting a situation getting irreversibly worse. The track titles alone tell the story. For anyone who played this game in one sitting and now needs to process what happened through the music.