the background noise

Too warm, just too warm. I'm sweating like a bawdy metaphor in church and I'm just not cut out for this thing we call summer. It's a hostile environment is what I'm saying. It makes me want to pack up and relocate to a walk-in freezer. So naturally, what better time to revisit my love of videogame music than when my brain is slowly baking from the inside.  Today we shall showcase the music of a game we've highlighted around these here parts before. Indeed I recall this was the best game I played back in the bygone days of three years ago. Today we highlight the music of Oxenfree for no other reason than I haven't already done so. That and I recently got around to playing it's sequel, so the first game has been on my mind a lot lately.

If any three words could sum up my gaming habits in the late nineties, those three words would probably be ' Command and Conquer ' or even ' Command & Conquer ' if we're going to be pedantic about it. Top down real time strategy games that I was well into back then. The gameplay was solid, the tone (at least in the early games) had the vague feel of the real world about it and most importantly for the subject of today's post, it had a stonking great soundtrack that still holds up all these years later. 

Happy August one and all! It's been a mostly sunny carefree month here. Sunshine, blue skies and a stillness to the air, true peak August vibes all said. So what better way to lean into the tail end of summer as the evenings gently grow darker and the temperature feels a touch cooler, than with another sample of my favourite game music. This time around it comes from a game I may have mentioned around these here parts previously: Hotline Miami, otherwise referred to by myself as  'T rippy Retro Ultra-Violent Hallucinogenic Slash Bang: The Game'.