Max LL finds so much weight in a single plucked string that it almost feels unfair. The Spiritfarer score opens with these quiet, deliberate acoustic figures that sit with you like a warm drink on a cold night. "Stella's Lullaby" is barely a minute long and it will absolutely wreck you.
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"Furogawa" builds from gentle folk guitar into something orchestral that sneaks up on you mid-swell, and "Don't Be Scared Stella" layers piano and strings into this tender reassurance that mirrors the whole game's thesis about letting go.
Moments of real tension too, like "The Swarms Of Hades" cutting through the calm. If you played Spiritfarer and somehow never sat with this soundtrack on its own, you owe yourself that.