Scion

Book Playlist

Scion Playlist

by James Islington

20 tracks

mysterious

Sep 18, 2026

This playlist leans into the hidden-mechanics, legal-but-grim practicality of “Scion,” using cinematic suspense, sparse harmonic movement, and slow-building dread. The soundscape stays mysterious and controlled—like a system operating behind polished rules—while two carefully chosen vocal tracks add bite without derailing focus.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Main Theme

Gareth Coker · Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Original Soundtrack Recording)

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2

Elevator Tension

Hans Zimmer · True Romance (Original Motion Picture Score)

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3

Ride To Old Mill / A Milkman's Revenge

Daniel Licht · Children of the Night (Original Morion Picture Soundtrack)

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4

The Show

Lenka · Lenka (Expanded Edition)

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5

What You Know

Two Door Cinema Club · Tourist History

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6

The Curse

Josh Ritter · So Runs The World Away

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7

The Shape Of Memory

Max Cooper · Feeling Is Structure

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8

Ghosts

Japan · Greatest Hits: New Romantic

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9

Odyssey

Rival Consoles · Odyssey / Sonne

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10

Flight from the City

Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée

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11

Wolf Like Me

TV On The Radio · Return To Cookie Mountain

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12

Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

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13

Gymnopédie No. 2

Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends

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14

Paranoid Android

Sybarite5 · Everything in Its Right Place (Radiohead Remixed)

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15

Xtal

Aphex Twin · Selected Ambient Works 85-92

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16

Oxygène, Pt. 4

Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygène

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17

White Eagle

Tangerine Dream · White Eagle (Deluxe Version / Remastered 2020)

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18

Svefn-g-englar

Sigur Rós · Ágætis byrjun

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19

Believer

Imagine Dragons · Evolve

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20

Elegy

Lisa Gerrard · Immortal Memory

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Mood mysterious

Genre soundtrack

Era any

Length medium

Instrumental request 90%

Environment balanced

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