The band 65daysofstatic just announced a second soundtrack for the highly-anticipated game, No Man’s Sky. This double album, called No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe, is different from the one previously announced by developer Hello Games. Along with the announcement, 65daysofstatic released a single from the album, which you can listen to below.
The band made the announcement on its website. In it, the musicians explain how they came up with the concept of the album, and it sounds surprisingly similar to how the No Man’s Sky game will work.
“The game, close to completion and due for release this summer, is also procedural, meaning, for those of you who don’t ‘do’ games, that it generates itself algorithmically rather than manually, and therefore is to all intents and purposes, evil,” said 65daysofstatic in the announcement. “In other words, it means that the parts of the game one journeys through are theoretically unique, built by the game itself, and you are experiencing them for the first time.”
“And the idea was to create an audio engine that also generated unique instances of music, albeit from a central library of sounds. 65daysofstatic sounds.”
The full tracklist of both albums are as follows:
— Album One: Music for an Infinite Universe —
M o n o l i t h
S u p e r m o o n
A s i m o v
H e l i o s p h e r e
B l u e p r i n t f o r a S l o w M a c h i n e
P i l l a r s o f F r o s t
E s c a p e V e l o c i t y
R e d P a r a l l a x
H y p e r s l e e p
E n d o f t h e W o r l d S u n
— Album Two: Soundscapes —
N M S _ e x t e r i o r A t m o s 1 / f a l s e s u n s
t o m o r r o w / l u l l / c e l e s t i a l f e e d b a c k
d e p a r t u r e / s h o r t w a v e / n o i s e t e s t
t e m p o r a l D i s s e n t / a s c e n s i o n _ t e s t 1 / k o a e c a x
b o r e a l i s / c o n t r a s t e l l a r
o u t l i e r / E O T W S _ V a r i a t i o n 1
Releasing June 17, the soundtrack can already be pre-ordered right here. It’s releasing in four different formats: digital downloads of both albums, two CDs of both albums, two vinyl records of the first album with digital downloads of both albums, or four vinyl records of both albums with the digital downloads.
When asked on Facebook how this album will be different from the one already announced, the band replied that it will be a different pressing. The second album of music is also unique to this version as well.
Pre-order prices range from $11.99 for the downloads to $60 for the complete vinyl package.
So what do you think? Are you excited to be able to listen to more No Man’s Sky music? Do you just want to play the game already? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
