Peter McConnell came back and made every mental world sound like its own genre. "Cassie's Library and Shanghai Memories" shifts between cozy mystery and sweeping nostalgia in a way that physically hurts. "Feeling Lucky Tonight" is lounge jazz filtered through psychic casino vibes, all smooth and slightly wrong.
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The panic attack theme does exactly what you think, tightening and layering until you need to breathe. "Ford's Bowling Alley" is somehow both melancholy and goofy. The Flea Circus cue has this manic carnival energy that never lets up.
Every track commits fully to its mindscape's emotional logic. If you played the original and wondered whether the sequel's music could possibly keep up, yeah. It did.