République gets heavy. Like, funeral heavy. Zinc LeMone scores Episode 4 with eight tracks that trade the series' usual clinical surveillance anxiety for something genuinely mournful. "Sea of Trees" opens with this expansive, almost organic sound that feels like stepping outside the facility for the first time and finding something worse.
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"Mammoth" is massive, layered and overwhelming in a way earlier episodes never attempted. "The Funeral" is probably the most emotionally direct piece in the entire series, stripped-down and devastating. "Breaking Mirrors" shatters the established sound palette into something fragmented and disorienting.
Even "Watery Grave" carries this solemn finality. The score stops being about paranoia here and starts being about grief. God's Acre earned its name.