Celeste Composer Releases “Concept Album” For Studio’s Cancelled Follow-Up, Earthblade

Earthblade, the subsequent sport from Celeste developer Extraordinarily OK Video games, was sadly cancelled earlier this 12 months following what studio founder Maddy Thorson described as “a disagreement in regards to the IP rights of Celeste”. We solely acquired a really small style of what this follow-up would supply — a Sport Awards reveal trailer and the odd weblog put up — however now composer Lena Raine has shared a “idea album” of her work on the challenge and, expectedly, it sounds lovely (thanks, Eurogamer).

‘EARTHBLADE ~ Throughout the Bounds of Destiny’ is now accessible to take heed to and purchase on Bandcamp. It consists of 9 model new tracks, each “conceptual and applied”, which Raine hopes will inform her personal model of the sport, and attracts inspiration from the likes of Vangelis, Joe Hisaishi’s work on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Yoko Kanno’s Cowboy Bebop rating.

We can’t go into each observe right here, however, briefly, when you have been a fan of Raine’s work on the likes of Celeste, Chicory and Deltarune, that is nicely price a pay attention.

This is how Raine describes the gathering within the Bandcamp album description:

Throughout the Bounds of Destiny, extra so than a soundtrack, is an idea album. The music I wrote for the sport is very dynamic, within the custom of what I wrote for Celeste. I took it many steps past, in ways in which temporally-constrained items of music can’t actually do justice. However I did my finest to rearrange them into the emotional arc of their development, very similar to I’d for any soundtrack launch.

Whereas we’re by no means going to get the prospect to see Earthblade, the composer hopes to revisit the vibes created for this album on a future challenge. “For now,” Raine concludes the album description, “tuck in and luxuriate in round half-hour of music that paint the image of what I hoped Earthblade may be”.

In a weblog put up asserting Earthblade’s cancellation again in January, Thorson confessed that she “really feel[s] some ways about it, however one massive feeling is undoubtedly reduction”. In accordance with that put up, the crew has now gone again to prototyping in an try and “rediscover sport improvement” as they did beforehand with Celeste and TowerFall.