Splatoon's soundtrack has no business going this hard for a game about kids turning into squids. Splattack opens with this punchy, distorted vocal chop over surf-rock guitar and funk bass that immediately tells you Nintendo lost their minds in the best way.
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The battle tracks like Ink or Sink and Kraken Up keep that chaotic energy, mixing garage rock grit with pop hooks sung in a made-up squid language. Now or Never kicks in during the last minute of matches and it genuinely raises your heart rate.
Then City of Color slows everything down for the Splatfest anthem, all shimmering and celebratory. The whole thing feels like a genre that didn't exist before this game invented it. Start here if you've never touched a Splatoon OST.