Clockwork piano ticking against vast, empty space. Maribeth Solomon and Brent Barkman returned from Sunless Sea to score Sunless Skies, Failbetter's cosmic Victorian horror sequel, and somehow made the void sound even lonelier.
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"Dead Tick Tock Time" layers mechanical rhythms under decaying melodies, like a pocket watch winding down in zero gravity. "Covert Victorian Underwater Piano" is as strange and beautiful as its title suggests. "The High Wilderness" opens with enormous, hollow ambience that makes you feel genuinely small.
Then "Albion London Lights" brings you back to something resembling warmth. The whole score floats between elegance and terror without ever choosing one. If Sunless Sea's soundtrack hooked you, this one takes it further into the dark.