Sarcastic jazz sitting next to industrial dread, and somehow it all makes sense. Void Bastards was scored by Ryan Roth with this brilliant comic-book-meets-corporate-dystopia energy that the BioShock designer's roguelike demanded.
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"Dining Hall Jazz" plays smooth and casual while mutants are literally trying to eat you. "Unpaid Overtime" captures that specific bureaucratic horror of being expendable. Then "Robopet Massacre" escalates into frantic territory without warning.
"Air on the B(astard) String" is genuinely funny as a track title and it delivers. Twenty-three tracks that toggle between lo-fi tension and absurdist calm like they're flipping a switch. If you love FTL-style resource management but want your soundtrack dripping with dark British humor, Void Bastards nails that tone.