Carbon's licensed soundtrack reads like someone raided every corner of mid-2000s underground music and threw it in a blender. You've got Goldfrapp's "Ride A White Horse" remix sitting next to Roots Manuva and Ladytron. "Are Friends Electric" brings that cold Tubeway Army energy into a racing game, which is kind of perfect for night driving.
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The Junkie XL remix of "Feel The Rush" hits exactly how you'd expect from him, relentless and massive. "Fighting In Built Up Areas" by Clayhill is this strange, almost haunting outlier in the tracklist. The whole thing bounces between electronic, grime, and alt-rock without ever feeling scattered.
If you miss when NFS soundtracks felt like actual curated mixtapes instead of Spotify playlists, Carbon is peak era.