Smoky noir jazz and moody orchestral cues that belong in a detective's office at midnight. Tex Murphy: Overseer is the 1998 FMV adventure game scored by Adrian Carr, and it sounds like someone fused a 40s film score with late-90s production.
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"Tex's Nightmare" opens with dissonant tension that sets the paranoid tone immediately, "Ambush At The Cabin" ratchets into full thriller territory with sharp strings and urgent percussion, and "Maria" slows everything down into something genuinely tender and aching.
The track names tell the story. "Tex Drugs The Coffee." "Things Get 'Worser'." Classic Tex humor baked right into the music cues. "Suite From The Pandora Directive" is a bonus callback that ties the whole series together in one long piece.
If you miss FMV adventure games and the weird wonderful era that made them, Tex's soundtrack is the trenchcoat you never took off.