Inon Zur built over five hours of score for Starfield and somehow kept it from collapsing under its own weight. The main theme runs on this six-note motif that threads through everything, bending from grand symphonic passages into these quiet, almost impressionistic electronic textures.
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"New Atlantis" hums with hopeful brass that slowly opens up, while "Cutthroats" flips the mood into something tense and gritty. Zur calls it an impressionistic treatment of the symphonic sound, and you can hear that in how tracks dissolve between moods without hard edges.
It's a massive album. Sprawling, even. If you need background music for staring at the night sky and wondering what's out there, this is five hours of exactly that feeling.