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Spirit Of The North 2 soundtrack heads to streaming with 10 unheard tracks
Spirit Of The North 2’s soundtrack hits streaming on May 20 with 10 unheard songs and a new update quest.
The Spirit Of The North 2 soundtrack is finally making its way to streaming next Wednesday (May 20), and it is arriving with a little extra for listeners who already know the game’s musical world. Alongside the full album, 10 previously unheard songs will be released as part of a new update tied to the game’s one-year anniversary.
That update goes live next week and links directly to the soundtrack, with the new tracks unlocked through a fresh quest. For a game that launched last year as the sequel to 2019’s Spirit Of The North, it is a neat bit of timing, especially for players who remember following the fox and raven through its ancient landscape in search of lost guardians and a way back home.
The digital soundtrack itself is a sizeable release: 93 tracks in total, including those 10 unheard pieces. It was composed by Pav Gekko, who has drawn heavily from Icelandic artists including Ólafur Arnalds, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Sigur Rós. Fans can pre-save the album now.
NME readers can also revisit an exclusive live performance of fan-favourite track ‘The Song Of Misthaven’ below:
‘The Song Of Misthaven’ makes use of Kulning, an ancient Scandinavian vocal technique once used to call animals across wide distances, and it appears throughout the Spirit Of The North 2 soundtrack. Gekko said he wanted music that felt like it was part of the landscape itself. “I was interested in creating music that feels as though it breathes with the environment and reflects the vastness, solitude, and mystery of the Icelandic-inspired landscapes. I didn’t want the soundtrack to feel like a traditional cinematic orchestral score, but instead have its own distinct sonic identity,” he explained.
“I’ve always been fascinated by the atmospheric use of ambience, fragile textures, and emotionally expressive vocal work found in contemporary Icelandic music. You can hear those influences throughout the soundtrack in the felt piano, dulcimers, soft string textures and slowly shifting harmonic layers. The more ethereal and expansive moments were especially influenced by Sigur Rós.”
There is plenty to unpack in that description, and it lines up with the way the soundtrack has been positioned from the start: not as standard fantasy wallpaper, but as something more textural and specific. The new streaming release gives that world a broader life outside the game, while the added songs should give returning fans a reason to go back in.
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