A video game soundtrack that opens with traditional Gaelic psalm singing. Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep Volume I sounds less like a game score and more like a field recording from the Scottish Highlands that someone built a dungeon crawler around.
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Cha D' Fhuair Mi'n Cadal has this raw vocal power that gives you chills, and The Creepy Maiden lives up to its name with fiddle work that feels genuinely unsettling. Gaelic Psalms - Dundee 103 is congregational singing, unadorned, completely real.
A Hardworking Hand brings in more rhythmic energy without losing that folk authenticity. The whole thing feels like it was recorded in a drafty stone church. If you care about RPG soundtracks that actually commit to a cultural identity, this one goes all the way.