Twelve Minutes has this score that loops and fragments just like the game itself. Luis Peraza wrote thirteen tracks numbered like clock positions, and the whole thing feels like anxiety pressed into sound. Track I opens with sparse piano over these tense, humming undertones that never fully resolve.
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By V and VI the tension ratchets up with dissonant strings and rhythmic pulses that mirror the time loop closing in. Track IX gets almost suffocating. Then O, the final piece, finally exhales into something resembling calm.
The whole album mirrors that feeling of repeating the same twelve minutes over and over, each pass a little more frayed. If the game's story got under your skin, the music is why.