Bobby Krlic's expanded Returnal score is 22 tracks of suffocating modular synth terror that makes the PS5 feel like a hostile organism. "Overgrown Ruins" builds from almost nothing into this oppressive wall of granular textures and subsonic dread.
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Each boss theme hits differently: Phrike is all sharp stabs and alien aggression, Nemesis opens up into something almost cosmic, and Ophion feels like drowning in slow motion. "Ascension" finally lets light in after hours of darkness, which makes it genuinely moving.
The whole thing operates more like experimental sound design than traditional game music. Krlic came from scoring Midsommar and brought that same ability to make beauty feel deeply wrong. If you want a soundtrack that physically unsettles you, this is the one.