Seven tracks of creepy lounge jazz that sound like a dinner party where something is very, very wrong. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click puzzle game about anthropomorphic animal guests at a sinister hotel, and the music sells that unsettling elegance completely.
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"Lobby Theme (Daytime)" plays it straight with this refined piano and light percussion, then "Lobby Theme (Nighttime)" twists the same melody into something that makes your skin crawl. Each guest room has its own theme. "Deer Room" is melancholic and fragile, "Boar Room" gets rougher around the edges.
Short album but every track carries weight. If you like your puzzle games dripping with atmosphere and dread, the Rusty Lake series never disappoints.