This thing crawls under your skin and builds a nest. Rain World: The Watcher's soundtrack, led by James Primate with contributions from Lydia Esrig, Serpanoy, and others, stretches across ambient dread, glitchy electronics, and moments of strange beauty.
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"Childhood's End" opens with this fragile warmth that the threat tracks spend the rest of the album dismantling. "Threat - Coral Caves" is all crunchy distortion and predatory bass, while "Evil Arp" lives up to its name with a synth line that stalks you.
Then "Lullaby" appears and you almost forget everything wants to eat you. Almost. The contrast between peaceful and hostile tracks mirrors the ecosystem perfectly. Essential listening for anyone who thinks survival games should sound like survival.