A:AMFP [Soundtrack Preorder]

[Alardem]

Would you have preferred it if I had strewn about IMOs and I thinks to feign tact? Of course everything I said is just my opinion and you are free to disregard it, but I am allowed to express my opinion in a more elaborate way than "I like it" or "I don't like it". I told you what I dislike about it, now either come up with a rebuttal or take a moment to quietly reflect.

Considering you've got more experience with music than me, I respect your opinion. And I'm free to say that I absolutely disagree with you. There's a lot of interesting things occurring within the samples we've heard thus far. The ambient horror tracks evoke a mood of industrial decay and discomfort, the calmer songs retain a sense of underlying melancholy much like a certain few tracks from Penumbra, and the 'Machine' theme crescendos to accentuate whatever revelation it will accompany.

It's a style that does not emulate but instead complements the soundtracks of other Frictional games, and I'm eager to see it with proper context. The music has taken on a more epic mood to match its Victorian theme.

As for the Machine track:

Spoiler below!

The voice in the latter half of that song is slightly muffled and echoes, evoking a man trapped in a metal box. Presumably it is the "Machine" itself. I imagine the scene to resemble the human slaughterhouses from Quake 4, accompanied by all those screams that the developers asked for back in Halloween.