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Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Original Soundtrack
VGMO: Video Game Music Online
(2017)
Abstract
As Solar Fields, Swedish composer Magnus Birgersson returns to the franchise that introduced millions of players to his characteristic blend of ambient, downtempo, and trance textures. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, his 16th album, was recorded over two years at DICE’s Stockholm headquarters. The result is an astonishing five hours of music that captures the anxiety of life in the city of Glass, an autocratic society of impossible cleanliness, like an Apple Store writ large. Birgersson conjures narcotic waves of gently lapping sound, the themes of a soma-fed citizenry, and he troubles those same waters to suggest the fear of stepping out of line. These disparate halves are bridged by propulsive beats that insist don’t stop, go straight, move forward. As Faith Connors, a skilled courier and black marketeer, that is exactly what players will do in order to survive.
Keywords
- video games,
- soundtracks,
- music,
- solar fields,
- EDM,
- ambient
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 23, 2017
Citation Information
Michael Hughes. "Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Original Soundtrack" VGMO: Video Game Music Online (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_hughes/19/
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