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A shifting soundscape for a world that has conquered death but not corruption: cool electronic pulses evoke the Thunderhead’s immense, watchful intelligence, while darker cinematic and post-rock passages trace Rowan’s vigilante legend and Citra’s defiant compassion. The vocal half turns toward the book’s human tensions—power, conscience, rebellion, and the limits of perfect control—moving between menace and hard-won hope.
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Brian Eno · Eno/Wyatt/Davies: Music for Airports
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Death Is the Road to Awe (feat. Kronos Quartet)
Clint Mansell · The Fountain OST
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Skyrim Atmospheres
Jeremy Soule · The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Original Game Soundtrack)
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Earth
Jesper Kyd · Assassin's Creed 2 (Original Game Soundtrack)
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Unfolding
Rival Consoles · Persona
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Held
Kiasmos · Kiasmos
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I Can Almost See You
Hammock · Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo (Deluxe Edition)
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All Is Violent, All Is Bright
God Is An Astronaut · All Is Violent, All Is Bright (2011 Remastered Edition)
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Quiet
This Will Destroy You · Young Mountain
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God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
Moby · Everything Is Wrong
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Eastern Glow
The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place
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Nightlife
Amon Tobin · Permutation
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Central Plain
Carbon Based Lifeforms · Interloper
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She Just Likes to Fight
Four Tet · There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)
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Silhouettes (I, II & III)
Floating Points · Elaenia
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Bless This Morning Year
Helios · Eingya
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Indoor Swimming At The Space Station
Matthew Robert Cooper · Copia
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The Artifact & Living
Michael Andrews · Donnie Darko (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Gravel Road (from "The Village")
James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4
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The Last Man
Clint Mansell · The Fountain OST
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Everybody Knows
Leonard Cohen · I'm Your Man
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The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around
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Karma Police
Radiohead · OK Computer
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Human
Rag'n'Bone Man · Human (Deluxe)
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Control
Puddle Of Mudd · Come Clean
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No Light, No Light
Florence + The Machine · Ceremonials (Original Deluxe Version)
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Glory
Bastille · Wild World (Complete Edition)
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POWER
Kanye West · My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
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The Fear
Lily Allen · It's Not Me, It's You
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Breathe Me
Sia · Colour The Small One
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The Sound of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel · The Singer
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Believer
Imagine Dragons · Evolve
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Human
The Killers · Day & Age (Bonus Tracks)
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Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes · Elephant
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Wolf Like Me
TV On The Radio · Return To Cookie Mountain
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No Church In The Wild
JAŸ-Z · Watch The Throne
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bury a friend
Billie Eilish · WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
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What I've Done
Linkin Park · Minutes to Midnight
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The Hand That Feeds
Nine Inch Nails · With Teeth (Bonus Tracks)
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