The title track hits you with this swelling string section backed by pulsing synths and it immediately sounds like staring at a galaxy map at 3 AM. Andreas Waldetoft and Bert Meyer wrote Stellaris's score for full orchestra, with the Brandenburg State Orchestra and Budapest Film Orchestra performing, and this collection pulls together ten tracks that sit right at the intersection of sci-fi electronica and classical film scoring.
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"Faster Than Light" builds tension through layered synth arpeggios before the strings take over, and "Dark Skies" goes somewhere genuinely unsettling. So much weight in so few tracks. If you play 4X games for that feeling of standing at the edge of the unknown, this is the soundtrack already doing it for you.