Pedal steel guitar sliding over handclaps and fiddle like some imaginary folk music from nowhere real. Daniel Simmons composed the Glitch MMO soundtrack with a crew of Toronto session musicians, and every region of Ur sounds like a different band showed up to play.
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"Groddle" has this cheerful, almost childlike bounce carried by bright acoustic guitar. "Ilmenskie Caverns" drops into something darker, all reverb and tension. "Jal" brings in world percussion that pushes the whimsy toward something more mysterious.
A whole MMO's worth of handcrafted ambient folk. If you never got to wander Glitch's surreal little world, at least you can still hear what it sounded like.