Petri Alanko - "Vertical Reflections" (1:44)
Petri Alanko - "Slaughtering A Nightingale" (1:39)
Petri Alanko - "Driving To The Spot" (2:37)
Petri Alanko - "Plotboard, Alleys & A Few Dead Bodies" (6:19)
Petri Alanko - "Driving Around Washington State" (2:39)
Petri Alanko - "Manuscript Page" (1:14)
Petri Alanko - "Nightingale Wakes Up" (2:43)
Petri Alanko - "Writer's Writings" (3:46)
Petri Alanko - "Saga" (1:38)
Petri Alanko - "Rose" (1:32)
Petri Alanko - "A Ritual & An Appearance" (3:15)
Petri Alanko - "Bathtub" (1:45)
Petri Alanko - "Evil Is Contagious" (2:46)
Petri Alanko - "Cult Photo" (2:05)
Petri Alanko - "Them Three" (2:09)
Petri Alanko - "Wake Talks" (4:01)
Petri Alanko - "The Attack, A Ceiling Fan & Lots Of Blood" (3:26)
Petri Alanko - "Wake Shoots Casey" (2:53)
Petri Alanko - "Tor & The Pond" (2:57)
Petri Alanko - "Wake Shoots Wake, Scratch Scores An Escape" (3:10)
Petri Alanko - "Last Straws" (3:01)
Petri Alanko - "Into The Static" (2:41)
Petri Alanko - "FBC Arrives" (1:59)
Petri Alanko - "Just Driving" (3:41)
Petri Alanko - "Zane" (6:45)
Petri Alanko - "The End(s)?" (4:42)
Petri Alanko - "End Credits - Welcome Again To Bright Falls" (3:13)
Petri Alanko - "End Credits - Awash Unknown" (2:18)
Petri Alanko - "End Credits - Scary Suite" (10:25)
Petri Alanko - "Ballroom Jazzy Flyboys Inc" (2:15)
Keira - "Night Springs" (2:14)
Rakel - "Follow You Into The Dark" (3:33)
Jaimes - "Wide Awake" (3:02)
Mougleta - "Superhero" (3:36)
Jean Castel - "Lost At Sea" (2:01)
Paleface - "Dark, Twisted & Cruel" (2:27)
ROOS + BERG - "No One Left To Love" (3:43)
POE - "This Road (The Mirror Is A Trap)" (1:40)
Old Gods Of Asgard - "Anger's Remorse" (5:46)
Old Gods Of Asgard - "Dark Ocean Summoning" (6:43)
Poets Of The Fall - "Heroes & Villains" (5:08)
POE - "This Road (The Dark Chamber)" (2:46)
POE - "This Road (Falling Apart)" (1:01)
Old Gods Of Asgard - "Herald Of Darkness" (feat Matthew Porretta & David Harewood) (8:38)
Old Gods Of Asgard - "The Poet & The Muse" (4:15)
POE - "This Road (The Beginning)" (2:05)
Petri Alanko, Martti Suosalo - "Yoton Yo" (4:08)
Review: Survival horror franchise Alan Wake saw its second instalment in 2023, following the game series' 2010 debut. Again, we follow novelist Alan Wake, as he attempts to escape his imprisonment in an alternate dimension by penning a horror story about an FBI agent, Saga Anderson. Both a detective story and a shoot 'em up, the second game bolsters the franchise's neo-noir and gothic Midwestern tropes; the soundtrack is fittingly both lachrymose and chilling, with its contributing scorers - Petri Alanko, Old Gods Of Asgard, Jean Castel and more - portraying Nordic moods of modern, nailbiting mystery. Through stark, grim, minor-keyed anthems, trip-hop furrowers and trembly orchestral laments, we find dead bodies found in the woods, fight spriggan-esque creatures, and soak in moods of noir crime psychodrama, all chillingly captured in a single sonic melange.
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