Enter Giant Claw’s Deep Thoughts!, the f...THINGS THEY SAW BEFORE THEY OPENED THEIR...One can think of myriad different direct...LYRES CLASH AND FLUTES CRY AND EVERYWHER...Can anyone else relate to this feeling w...When Phil Fish asked Disasterpeace to ma...

When Phil Fish asked Disasterpeace to make the soundtrack to...

Published: November 05, 2015

&lt;img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/6652bddd3652d76fadb7132d2b42b17b/tumblr_nxcvdlcTIL1qbwu5zo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt; When Phil Fish asked Disasterpeace to make the soundtrack to his magnificent indie adventure game &lt;i&gt;Fez&lt;/i&gt;, he told him he wants something that sounds like “chiptune Vangelis”. Disasterpeace fulfilled a fantasy there, but he did not make a Vangelis out of it. Instead he gave birth to a vast and warped world of puzzles, not for, but through Gomez, the player-character’s brain. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a considerable distance to walk from twisted-yet-calming enigma of &lt;i&gt;Fez&lt;/i&gt; to Richard Vreeland’s latest score for &lt;i&gt;It Follows&lt;/i&gt;. But somehow both works strangely meet in more than a few coordinations. &lt;i&gt;It Follows&lt;/i&gt; is director David Robert Mitchell’s sophomore film depicting the supernatural horror of living in the fear of being murdered by anyone who is approaching you. At moments, there is a ‘90s &lt;i&gt;Ghost-World&lt;/i&gt;-y teen-artistry to it and happens to be an entertaining watch. But that was not the only reason we gave it a go. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What did not surprise us was Disasterpeace’s pixelated trademark over the eerie canvas of Mitchell’s alone-in-the-dark and dreary atmospheres. In &lt;i&gt;Fez&lt;/i&gt;, Gomez had to go through an array of math and cryptography, discover a new physical dimension previously unknown to humans and figure out what a quick brown fox jumping over a lazy dog can possibly mean. And s/he did it all in almost complete solitude. It was sad at moments and made us reflect over life as a mere struggle towards survival. &lt;i&gt;It Follows&lt;/i&gt; has a vague glimmer of &lt;i&gt;Fez&lt;/i&gt; sprayed all over its soundtrack, as if there is a marriage between Gomez coming to terms with a recursive and never-ending loneliness and a Haxan-Cloak-like nocturnal anxiety that can be passed along to someone else but unluckily never disappears. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The soundtrack album &lt;a href="https://music.disasterpeace.com/album/it-follows" target="_blank"&gt;was released&lt;/a&gt; in March and the title track exemplifies best what we probably failed to describe above.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3413724537/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=f171a2/track=3091418230/transparent=true/" seamless&gt;&lt;a href="https://music.disasterpeace.com/album/it-follows" target="_blank"&gt;It Follows by Disasterpeace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;