"Unshaken" by D'Angelo playing while you ride through the wilderness might be the single best needle drop in any video game ever made. The Red Dead Redemption II vocal soundtrack pulls in artists like Daniel Lanois and Rhiannon Giddens to build something that feels like a real roots album.
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"That's The Way It Is" hits during one of the most emotionally brutal scenes in the game and the restraint in that vocal performance is what kills you. "Cruel World" bookends the whole thing with this worn-out outlaw energy.
"Mountain Hymn" is so sparse it barely exists and that's exactly why it works. If you finished RDR2 and still think about it sometimes, these songs are probably why.