

We’d love to hear what would be on your lists via /laced_records / Facebook / /lacedrecords.

The list runs chronologically by year, alphabetically within a given year. With one or two exceptions, these are all original scores and/or licensed soundtracks that play in the game - so no arranged albums or piano collections (much as we love them.) And, as arbitrary gods of this listicle, we’re going to cheat our pants off and group together multiple titles in special cases because we couldn’t bear to choose between them. This is a personal, entirely subjective list by Mat (freelance writer) and Tom (Laced community manager and blog editor.) It is not a “Best of the decade” because this is not an independent media site that, and we haven’t listened to every track of the thousands of game soundtracks released over the 2010s. There’s been all sorts of experimentation and genre-blending and, not to be overlooked, music supervisors have outdone themselves in licensing killer tracks from megastar and minnow artists alike. We’ve seen talented young composers rise to prominence, whilst many veterans have continued to dazzle with their mastery of the craft. Writer Mat Ombler and Laced community manager Tom Quillfeldt pick their favourite original and licensed video game soundtracks from the Teens.įrom 2010 to 2019, the Teens was an abundant decade for video games and game music - arguably transcendental rather than merely transitional.
