by blzzzrrttt
I like music, I like video games. I like good music in video games. Here's some of the best of 2k14!
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Composed by: Widdly 2 Diddly (Austin Jorgensen) The best way to describe this soundtrack is "fitting". This game is weird as hell and there are plenty of weird tracks that reflect it. This game can definitely make you feel sad and there are tracks on this OST that prove it. This game's pretty disturbing and... well, you know what I'm getting at. Listen/buy here: https://widdly2diddly.bandcamp.com/album/lisa-soundtrack Best trax include: All Hail The Fishmen, Die! Die! Die! and My Lord, My Wally.
Composed by: .Haku & Moodbasics (Mattias Hakulinen and Pontus Askbrink) So, there are two discs to this soundtrack. Disc 1 consists of jazzy lounge tracks that play during the overworld portions of the game. Disc 2 is made up of hip-hop remixes of those songs that play during the card battles of the game. It's kind of alarming how good this soundtrack is. It's a shame most people will probably never hear it! Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/dothaku/sets/card-city-nights Best trax include: Nights, Ghastly House, Turnip Corp. (from Disc 1) Chaotic Bigness, Safe Fiction, Cash Drop. (From Disc 2)
Composed by: Virt (Jake Kaufman) & Manami Matsumae I haven't played Shovel Knight (yet) but I don't think I have to to tell you that it's got one of the best soundtracks of 2014. With Virt of Wayforward fame and original Mega Man composer Manami Matsumae by his side the two have created one of the best chiptune works in recent memory. Listen/buy here: https://virt.bandcamp.com/album/shovel-knight-original-soundtrack Best trax include: In the Halls of the Usurper (Pridemoor Keep), The Bounty Hunter (Treasure Knight Battle), Flowers of Antimony (The Explodatorium)
Composed by: Virt (Jake Kaufman) Another virt joint but this time it's something radically different. This soundtrack is a delightfully odd mix of SNES era Final Fantasy and a spaghetti western. It's also got a synthesized harmonica in some tracks! Listen/buy here: https://virt.bandcamp.com/album/boot-hill-heroes-ost Best trax include: The Saints-Little Gang, Saloon Rag, Death Row
Composed by: Various Artists From crunchy electro to sleek garage, Lethal League's soundtrack is the perfect music to listen to while laying a beatdown on your friends. Best track is: Ordinary Days by Klaus Veen.
Composed by: Luis Hernandez Jazzpunk's soundtrack is... well. Often times it's 60's spy film stingers slapped together to form something similar to a beat. Sometimes it's languid electronic loops backed by tropical drums. It even gets to the point where you end up listening to public domain documentary audio laid over a fresh beat. For the most part, it sounds like this soundtrack was some sort of Frankenstein-ian construction of early sci-fi and spy fiction soundbytes that can only exist in an alternate dimmension. It's pretty great. Best trax include: Every single one of them.
Composed by: Ridiculon (Matthias Bossi and Jon Evans) A lot of people say that the new soundtrack isn't as good as the old one. Those people are actually wrong. They just don't get it man y'know? But really, I think those boys at Ridiculon did a good job capturing the disgusting, horrific and haunting atmosphere that lies behind the entire concept of The Binding of Isaac. Listen/buy here: https://ridiculon.bandcamp.com/album/the-binding-of-isaac-rebirth-ost Best trax include: Diptera Sonata, The Forgotten (Secret Room), Infanticide (Isaac), Descensum
Composed by: Calum Bowen The OST for Lovely Planet is 100% concentrated pure love happiness forever. It actually makes me feel a bit sad listening to such happy music. The sadness doesn't stay for too long though, it's almost immediately replaced by the joyous sounds of a lovely planet... Listen/buy here: http://calumbowen.bandcamp.com/album/lovely-planet-original-soundtrack Best trax include: ALL OF 'EM.
Composed by: FlybyNo Someone described this soundtrack to me as "The best Aphex Twin album I ever heard". While that could not be a more incorrect assessment of this soundtrack, I understand the sentiment behind it; that being that it's some god-tier electronic music. Think of it as 2014's FTL soundtrack of the year. Listen/buy here: http://gameaudiofactory.bandcamp.com/album/dungeon-of-the-endless-soundtrack Best trax include: Actually every single one.
Composed by: .Haku (Mattias Hakulinen) I have the audacity to put a game jam game on this list because A) I'm a wild dude and B) It's actually a jammin' soundtrack. It was also made in less than 4 days! Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/dothaku/sets/princess-remedy-in-a-world-of-hurt Best trax include: Goodnight Legend, Jazzy Ghosts