![]() ![]() Local workers, destitute and stuck in this forgotten town, snatch moments of chemically-enhanced fun where they can get it, before the long winters and salty air call them back to consciousness. The setting of Martinaise – a working class district of a fictional post-failed Revolutionary state in a world that’s long past its prime – reeks of despair. Junkie kids, racist dockworkers, neo-liberal snobs and venture capitalists that are so rich their wealth bends light around them are all par for the course in Disco Elysium. The game – wrenched from the mind Robert Kurvitz, lead designer and writer at pan-European development outfit ZA/UM – focuses on an alcoholic detective embroiled in one of the messiest murder cases you’ll see in media. But none have fit the brief better than Sea Power. There have been many established artists that have gone on to make music for games ( these days, it’s a pretty damn cool thing to do). British Sea Power – or Sea Power now, dropping the nation prefix, so as not to come off all jingoistic – has always been a band that embraces the miserable alongside the beautiful. It was extolling the virtues of being an EU citizen. It was penning beautiful, atmospheric tracks about obscure bodies of water in Orkney. The band was writing music about the slow, perilous collapse of the planet as ice shelves slid into the ocean. READ MORE: ‘Destiny 2’ isn’t kind to new playersĮven in the mid-00s, British Sea Power was somewhat ahead of the curve.I was 14 when I saw them perform to a crowd of big-pupiled students, all holding local flora aloft, waving branches back and forth as the set climaxed with the arrival of a member of the crew in a bear suit, running amok onstage. ![]() The tragically short-lived Summer Sundae was unique in the British festival scene a favourite of BBC Radio 6 DJs and a destination for all the middle-class hippies that would later move to Totnes or Glastonbury (town), the plucky 6000 capacity festival was a perfect fit for British Sea Power. This week, Dom Peppiatt explores how British Sea Power‘s soundtrack to Disco Elysium captured all the gloom of hangovers, capitalism, and a man on the brink of losing himself.īack in 2005, I saw British Sea Power live at a small festival that blossomed in the heart of a Leicester campus every year. Rock The Spacebar is a twice-monthly column investigating the great music that underpins your favourite games.
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