Style: video game music, minimalist ambient
Primary Emotions/Themes: It's fascinating that such a wonderful soundtrack comes from a mobile game
Thoughts: Monument Valley is a curious puzzle game about getting a mother and her child through a labyrinth of puzzles based off of impossible gematric shapes. There is no real urgency, you have unlimited time, unlimited attempts, and the game seemingly has unlimited possibilities.
Every scene in the game is a collection of simple geometric shapes. It's incredibly minimalistic. The music fits into this aesthetic perfectly. The compositions only have one or two instruments going at any single moment, with silence being a major player in the way that the songs are structured. It's calming, it's soothing, it's prefect.
Some soundtracks can go beyond themselves... beyond the scope of the game and create a beautiful album in it's own context. Monument Valley is one of those albums. The music here would be outstanding even if it did not belong to a game. I could easily see this album fitting into Brain Eno's Ambient series, or some of Harold Budd's early works. An astounding album.
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