Dusty, spacefaring Americana that sounds like a fiddle player stowed away on a cargo ship. Music to Smuggle By is from a Firefly-universe mobile game, and every track title is a Joss Whedon quote, so you know exactly what flavor of sci-fi western you're getting.
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"Out in the Black" nails that lonely, drifting-through-space feeling with sparse instrumentation. "Some Imminent Violence" picks up the tempo with this tense, scrappy energy, like a bar fight about to happen. "Love Keeps Her in the Air" brings in warmer tones that actually make you miss a fictional ship.
The Reaver track exists and it sounds exactly as unsettling as it should. "Everything's Shiny Captain" is the emotional exhale after all the tension. If you're a Browncoat who needs background music for literally anything, keep flying with this one.