Olivier Deriviere wrote Vampyr's score with live cello that sounds like it's being played in a bombed-out London church during the 1918 flu. The Struggle opens with these raw, bowed strings that feel physically close, almost uncomfortably intimate.
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Bridge to London builds with low brass and choral textures that paint this picture of a city rotting from the inside. Then White Chapel District shifts into something folkish and worn, like street music heard through rain.
Twisted Tango is... weirdly fun? This dark waltz energy that shouldn't work but completely does. The quieter pieces like A Night at Home carry so much weight. If you want a vampire soundtrack that actually sounds sick and human instead of flashy, this is it.