Ink-wash painting but in audio form. TFT Set 11's Inkborn Fables soundtrack draws on East Asian folk instrumentation with erhu, guzheng, and bamboo flute woven into these gorgeous arrangements. "Fishing with Tahm Kench" is weirdly peaceful for a track about a river demon, just plucked strings over water sounds.
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"Immortal's Journey to a Celestial Court" builds into this sweeping, heavenly thing with layered percussion that keeps escalating. Then "Tea on Terraced Slopes" brings it all back down to earth. So grounding. "A Brush with Fate" opens the whole set with cinematic weight that makes you forget you're playing an auto-battler.
Riot's music team keeps going off with these themed sets. If you dig East Asian folk fusion, don't sleep on this.