Humid, droning, barely holding itself together in the best way. NORCO's soundtrack sits in this unsettling space between Southern gothic ambience and industrial decay. "Parish (Overworld Theme)" sets the whole mood with these slow, aching tones that feel like Louisiana heat radiating off asphalt.
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Then "Refinery Eyes (Laura's Theme)" creeps in with something more personal and fragile underneath all the grit. "Drones" is exactly what it sounds like and somehow still gets under your skin. The whole thing feels like standing in a parking lot at 3AM near a petrochemical plant, half dreaming.
If you played NORCO and thought the atmosphere was doing most of the heavy lifting, yeah, it was this.