Silent Hill 2 movie adaptation Return To Silent Hill hits cinemas today (January 23) and its soundtrack is now available to stream.
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Created by Silent Hill 2 composer Akira Yamaoka, the Return To Silent Hill soundtrack features fan-favourite tracks ‘Chasing Laura’ and ‘Moth Mary’ alongside new creations.
The Return To Silent Hill soundtrack is available to download and stream now.
“Do not explain fear,” said Akira Yamaoka in a statement. “In many films, music clearly tells the audience: this is sad, this is scary, this is the moment to feel uplifted. But in the world of Silent Hill, the moment you do that, fear and sadness collapse the instant they are explained.
“I took a different approach with Return To Silent Hill: not completing emotions, not resolving things – even at the climax – and keeping a slight distance, rather than having the music ‘embrace’ the scene. As a result, the audience can no longer be sure whether they are listening to music or hearing sounds that exist inside the world itself. For longtime Silent Hill fans, this may feel unsettling and, at the same time, strangely familiar,” he continued.
‘Silent Hill’ composer Akira Yamaoka. CREDIT: Press
“What flows through this story is not clear-cut anger or fear, but something far more ambiguous – unspoken regret, lingering attachment and a mind that has not yet grasped that there is no way back. I was constantly thinking about how such a state could be made to exist as sound. The music for this film does not aim for listeners to remember a striking phrase. Rather, it seeks to leave behind a state where, after the film has ended, only an emotion remains – one that cannot be easily put into words.”
The Return To Silent Hill soundtrack tracklist is:
‘Ashes In The Moonlight’
‘The Letter’
‘The Forest’
‘Homeless Guy / Heaven’s Night’
‘The Lakeview’
‘The Portrait’
‘Entering Silent Hill’
‘The Field’
‘Armless Creature’
‘Ashes That Remember You’
‘The Bath Room’
‘Return to Darkness’
‘Running into Darkness’
‘Your Father’
‘A Corridor Without End’
‘The House That Breathes’
‘Tailing’
‘The Altar’
‘Dormant Voices’
‘Brookhaven Hospital’
‘Dance Studio’
‘Echoes Of A Fading Figure’
‘Chasing Laura’
‘Head No. 2’
‘Red Pyramid’
‘The Gathering’
‘Our Name’
‘Promise Me’
‘The Maze’
‘The Ritual’
‘Spider Lady’
‘Red Pyramid Spider Sting’
‘A Tune Left Behind’
‘Room 318’
‘2nd Armless’
‘Glass Tears’
‘Woodside Apartments’
‘The TV’
‘The Nurses’
‘Laura’s Lullaby’
‘Waking up in the Hospital’
‘The Breakup’
‘Return To Darkness 2’
‘The Furnace Dream’
‘The Elevator’
‘Moonlight Burial’
‘Moth Mary’
‘Dormant Eyes’
‘Déjà Vu’
‘Outta My Mind’
Return To Silent Hill currently has a 9 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes and a “generally unfavourable” rating on Metacritic after being panned by critics.
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