American Mcgee's Alice (Score)

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Free Music Review: A score that sells a game.
Hit: 5 Stars

This score by Chris Vrenna is a masterpiece of atmospheric mood. It contains sounds you know and sounds you hope never to meet in the real world, all used musically or dramatically to enhance the experience of the computer game. The thing is, you might just want to have the music and skip the game.

If you are in love with electronic music (and here I do NOT refer to dance, techno or rave music) you may find this CD to be one of the most important of your collection. Especially if you like film scores, atmospheric and ambient works and general creepiness.

Don't be put off by descriptive words such as "gothic," "creepy" or "ambient." There is actually excellent orchestration and structure to be found here, making this stand as a film score and not a crude modern art performance piece.

If you're one of the people who bought the Quake game just for Trent Reznor's music (and liked it, but thought it would have been nice if it were more thematic and musical) you should get this disc, too. Hey, these two artists worked together in the past, so it is no surprise that if you like the one, you may also like the other.

My appreciation of this CD lead me to purchase Chris Vrenna's solo project "Tweaker: the attraction to all things uncertain." If you like Alice, you may well like Tweaker, though they are surely of different upbringings.

This disc is surely one of the most important in my collection. Make it part of yours.

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