Your Rain opens with this trip-hop groove that sounds like it wandered in from a Portishead record and somehow fits perfectly inside Silent Hill 4. Yamaoka composed a score that constantly shifts between eerie calm and pure suffocation.
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Tender Sugar has this slinky, almost seductive quality that makes the horror feel uncomfortably intimate. Then Nightmarish Waltz lives up to its name with off-kilter timing and warped instrumentation that sounds like a music box melting.
Room of Angel still destroys me every time, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn's vocals carrying all this weight without ever raising her voice. The unreleased Heaven's Night live session at the end is a nice bonus. If you only know SH2's soundtrack, this one deserves the same late-night headphone treatment.