"I know everyone hates Beícoli these days, but her music was so very fucking excellent, you know?"
— Inok, providing an apt description of the game's soundtrack
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Laika: Aged Through Blood's soundtrack by Beícoli is breathtakingly morose and beautiful, and every song perfectly compliments the dour visuals and Scenery Gorn of the Wasteland that Laika bikes through. Prepare to cry.
Beícoli Songs
- "The Whisper
" is automatically programmed to be one of the first tracks in your cassette playlist, and is such a tragically existentially nihilistic song you may start skipping it purely because it's so sad. It also plays over the game's opening and Jakob's funeral, making it a great Establishing Series Moment. - "Playing in the Sun" isn't as gut-wrenching as many other Beícoli songs are, but it does make a great backing track for blazing through the wasteland as fast as possible and blowing Birds into Ludicrous Gibs.
- "Heartglaze Hope" is a surprisingly uplifting and stirring song in what are otherwise a lot of downer tracks, but it might make you cry Tears of Joy regardless.
- "Coming Home" is another surprisingly cheerful and almost folksy song which can make biking through the Wasteland just a little more happy and bearable.
- "Mother" is a delicate but extremely powerful song with equally powerful bass and percussion tracks. It's no wonder that the devs decided to play it over the end credits to close off the game.
- "My Destiny" is so unbelievably depressing and ennui-inducing it's almost difficult to describe. It really doesn't help that it plays over the "Whales, Roy" scene, which is one of the game's absolute biggest gut-punches.
- "The End of the Road"'s insane vocals and bassline make it another contender for one of the game's saddest tracks, made all the sadder by the fact that it first accompanies Orella's suicide and her postmortem conversation with Laika about how she regrets destroying the Birds' culture she so loved, all while Laika is unable to provide much reassurance that they did the right thing.
- "I'm Not Gone" is another tear-inducing song about how the singer will be Always with You to whomever she's singing to. It becomes a lot sadder in context knowing that it plays over the game's ending and how Puppy won't get to see her mother again.
- "The Hero", the song Beícoli is heard singing Where Music Dies and the last cassette tape the player is likely to find. The lyrics and humming will consistently make even the most stoic-hearted folks misty-eyed.
Game Soundtrack
- "Where We Dream" is a simple acoustic guitar and piano theme which greatly accentuates the simple comfort that Laika and Puppy's home signifies. Listening to this play while Laika gives Puppy a gift and watching her be as caring of a mother as she can will just fill the player with good feelings.
- "Little Bones" greatly sells the sequestered nature and fragility of Where We Live, and that it's a town of close-knit individuals with almost no hope trying to eke out an existence. The humming vocals are especially good at instilling a desire in the player to protect this small town and its quirky, colorful inhabitants.
- "A Hundred Hungry Beaks" is only 44 seconds long, but it's also a surprisingly high-octane and scary track for a Warm-Up Boss.
- "Memories" is a subdued but melancholic track, the vocals of which evokes songs like "Voices" from LISA: The Joyful, greatly demonstrating that Laika has few fond memories of either childhood or motherhood to look back on.
- "When I Lost A Friend" is a great Establishing Series Moment to accompany Jakob's death, because even if it's a Long Song, Short Scene for a We Hardly Knew Ye character it still manages to be dark and impactful in its own way.
- "The Wastelanders" starts out as a simple guitar piece and slowly builds up over time to incorporate all of the Wastelanders' instruments, creating a beautiful and relaxing Variable Mix you'll get to hear every time you return to Where We Live by night while improving it over time.
- "A Gargantuan Swimcrab" is a surprisingly urgent piece which will get your adrenaline pumping facing off against a serious Marathon Boss.
- "A Caterpillar Made Of Sadness" is a Song In The Key Of Panic with freaking electric guitars that even if it's hard to hear during actual gameplay makes for a sinister listen after the fact.
- "Puppy is Gone" is bound to trigger the maternal instinct even in players who aren't mothers, especially since it acts as a Background Music Override for both normally calm and relaxed tracks "Where We Dream" and "Little Bones".
- "Control Area" is extremely creepy not only because of its sinister tone, but because it uses the melody of "Little Bones". That's right, this simple musical cue informs the player that the Floating City is the direct Bird counterpart to Where We Live.
- "Freedom's Anthem" is the exact kind of Music to Invade Poland to you would expect the Birds to compose.
