Description
//Starfield//
£123.99 – 6xLP, Limited Edition Boxset
£44.99 – 2xLP, Standard Edition Vinyl
Throughout all Bethesda Game Studios titles, music is an integral part of the player’s journey and a constant companion on one’s adventure. Composer Inon Zur’s long-running collaboration with the studio began all the way back in 2008 with the launch of Fallout 3. With the Starfield score, they sought to evoke both the vastness of space and humanity’s curiosity-driven efforts to chart the unknown. This led to Zur weaving together traditional and non-traditional orchestral and electronic palettes into an aural tapestry of the organic and the synthetic.
During development, the team circulated an eclectic range of reference points: launching off with sci-fi staples John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith; passing through a classical nebula of Debussy, Ravel, and Prokofiev; flying by Vangelis’ towering synth work; and glancing the experimental work of Einstürzende Neubauten and John Cage.
Starfield’s orchestral cues — recorded by the Budapest Film Orchestra — often see different instrumental sections invoking imaginative aspects of space. Brisk, repeated sequences in the woodwinds represent particles. Strings playing undulating chords mimic long waves of interstellar energy. The brass section becomes a beacon of melody blasting out across the galaxy. Similarly, the more electronic-driven cues maintain a sense of grandeur through weighty synth pads that underpin cryptic repeated patterns and unusual percussive jabs.
Aeralie Brighton (DEATHLOOP, Ori series) is a featured vocalist on the soundtrack.
Tracklisting:
Disc 1
Side A
Into the Starfield (Main Theme)
Planetrise
First Flight
New Atlantis
The Sol System
Go Steady, Go Safe
Side B
Peaks and Valleys
Triumvirate
Field of Vision
Starlight Far from Home
Exploration I – Home Planets
Disc 2
Side A
The Mountain Builders
The Red Land
Ancient Forces
Constellations
Navigator Corps
Side B
The Last Explorers
Within the Walls
Long Shadows
A Home Among the Stars
Exploration II – The Hills and the Mountains
Disc 3
Side A
Death and Crimson
The Rock
The New Old Frontier
The Safety of the Citizens
Freestar
Moonbase
Side B
The World Machine
Deep Time
Akila City
Field Agent
Hardness Scales
Exploration III – Explorers Club
Disc 4
Side A
Stars and Sacrifice
Heliosphere
Core Sample
Chamber
Tenacity of Life
Side B
Cydonia
Wrecked Tech
In Silent Orbit
Tectonics
Snowball
Exploration IV – Vulcanism
Disc 5
Side A
Weapons to Bear
Supra et Ultra
Abandoned
Decay Heat
Roughneck High-Tech
Exploration V – Evergreen
Side B
Sublevels
The Eye
Under a Distant Sun
Echo Marker
Exploration VI – Strange Sands
Disc 6
Side A
Understory
Badlanders
Canopy
Neon
Exploration VII – The Ice Lands
Side B
Aurora
Deep Freeze
You Make Your Cut, You Get Your Cut
Exploration VIII – The Far Reaches
Nobody’s Home
A Home in the Galaxy
2xLP Tracklisting:
Disc 1
Side A
Into the Starfield (Main Theme)
First Flight
The Sol System
New Atlantis
The World Machine
Side B
Death and Crimson
Ancient Forces
Constellations
The New Old Frontier
Starlight Far from Home
Disc 2
Side A
The Last Explorers
Field of Vision
Cydonia
Badlanders
Aurora
Side B
Decay Heat
Under a Distant Sun
Tenacity of Life
Deep Freeze
A Home in the Galaxy
