Starfield (Original Soundtrack): Vinyl 2LP

Bethesda Game Studios and Laced Records have crewed up to bring the music of Starfield to deluxe 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.

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Into the Starfield (Main Theme)
2. First Flight
3. The Sol System
4. New Atlantis
5. The World Machine
6. Death and Crimson
7. Ancient Forces
8. Constellations
9. The New Old Frontier
10. Starlight Far from Home

Disc 2

11. The Last Explorers
12. Field of Vision
13. Cydonia
14. Badlanders
15. Aurora
16. Decay Heat
17. Under a Distant Sun
18. Tenacity of Life
19. Deep Freeze
20. A Home in the Galaxy