"Well recorded" music thread

Well, I don’t know if eeeverything, but that’s just me and movie-music in general: I can’t enjoy it if I’m not also watching the movie, since the pacing and emotions are so tied up in whatever scene each musical passage goes with. Even if I’ve seen the movie it still doesn’t work for me usually, unless there’s some song that’s made to stand just as well on its own, like if it was composed separately (e.g. Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight” vs. its use in “Arrival”). BUT the one exception to this is indeed Austin Wintory and his OST for “Journey”. <3 <3 Especially if you’ve played the game or seen a full playthrough without commentary (it works perfectly fine as a movie IMO), that music is just… beyond words. There’s a reason it was the first full videogame OST to be nominated for a Grammy, and it’s probably also not separate from why it so happened that 3 of the game’s 25 in-house testers cried when they finished it.

I was gonna ask: does electronic even qualify as recorded? :slight_smile: Maybe @ZeosPantera can shed some light on this.