Style: Video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: Small glimpses of joy on a road trip through the desert
Thoughts: A beat up old car. Two women searching for lost treasure. A small slice of life adventure that we are fortunate enough to witness.
Dusk is a quaint little soundtrack that follows the adventures of Amber and Marina as they go through the American southwest deserts in search of long lost treasure. The soundtrack naturally has a western fell to it, relying heavily on guitars and harmonica.
The way that the instruments are used here though ranges quite a bit. Some tracks are nearly ambient in the way that the guitar strums, others feel more like a typical track that you would find in any video game soundtrack, but the overwhelming majority here is done in the western style.
This reliance on the guitar helps the soundtrack forge it's own identity. This same identity is forged in the fact that so little of the soundtrack is overt... much of the music is subtle. When these two elements combine they make the very best music on the soundtrack.
Not everything on the soundtrack is as good as the near ambient sections, but the more token video game sections are competent at what they do and they fit with the game when they are present. If there was singular reason to pick this album up though, it is for the more subtle guitar driven tracks. Those alone are worth the price of admission.
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