Two tracks of windswept folk guitar echoing across frozen peaks. Retro Family scored this Mountains EP for Shelter 2, the survival game where you play a lynx raising cubs in the Scandinavian wilderness. "Mountain Lowland" has this gentle acoustic warmth that feels like sun hitting grass between tree lines, fingerpicked patterns that loop without ever feeling repetitive.
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"Mountain Highland" climbs into thinner air with sparser instrumentation and more reverb, like the landscape itself is pulling the sound apart. Just two tracks but they capture altitude. The whole thing is barely ten minutes long and that's exactly right.
If you played Shelter 2 and kept wandering the mountains just to hear the music change, this is that moment bottled.