5/6/2023 0 Comments Star wars battlefront 2015![]() It starts slowly with triumphant brass and upbeat flourishes of strings, with thunderous drums kicking in a few minutes later accompanied by then louder brassy bursts as heroic action then ensues.Ī rumble of percussion opens the nine minute Approach To Landing Pad 13, with light-hearted strings and brass brightening the mood considerably for the first minute. Still, that doesn’t stop the action from being damned near masterful, with subsequent cue The Battle In The Clouds being a great example. Those main themes are also really great (particularly Fallen Order‘s) so it is a little disappointing that Battlefront here doesn’t appear to have one at all. Something to tie all the score together, in a similar manner to the main themes of Jedi: Fallen Order or Squadrons – a motif to weave throughout the score and make those epic moments all the more astounding. So far though, while I am very much enjoying Haab’s brilliant action style here, the one thing the album is kind of missing is a main Battlefront theme. The Imperial Advance then opens in a similarly malevolent manner, with some dark-sounding brass harkening back to John Williams’ imposing sound for the Empire before a fast pace once again kicks in and tense action takes over for pretty much the remainder of the track, utilising emphatic brass and boisterous percussion to great effect throughout. Crashes of percussion accompanied by villainous-sounding brass then take over for the remainder of the cue, emphasising and building until finally reaching another crescendo at the eight minute mark to finish the piece on a particularly dramatic note. Things then slow down a tad at the start of SoroSuub Skirmish, with low brass and ominous strings establishing quite the sinister mood for a minute or two before brass starts to build back up again, getting louder and more prominent until a crescendo is reached at three minutes in, and the pace once again quickens to frantic. ![]() It isn’t long before the action then kicks off once again, with loud brass and thunderous drums flaring up for four minutes of frenetically-paced score. Survivors Of Endor opens tensely, with high-pitched strings setting a hurried tone and rumbles of percussion stirring quietly in the background. Intriguingly, brass then plays a few thematic hints towards John Williams as the track starts to draw to a close, with a couple notes from what sounds an awful lot like Escape From Naboo (from The Phantom Menace) playing out in dramatically heroic form. Frantic bursts of brass accompanied by thunderous percussion lead the rapid charge for a minute or two before a bold and rather heroic motif breaks through, switching the tone up from aggressive to downright courageous. Pale Blue Orb then opens rather mysteriously with light percussion and playful strings before emphatic brass then joins the fray thirty seconds or so in, with the pace quickening and the action then resuming. Couple that with my fevered anticipation as this particular score has been six years in the waiting (not sure why it took so long to come out, but here we are) and overall I’d say the album’s off to a tremendously good start. Over the course of the next six minutes, whether its the flourishes of strings, bold brass statements or hurried percussive elements, it all screams Star Wars, and I’ve been absolutely in awe of it, not just in this cue, but also in Haab’s work across the SW game franchise. Right off the bat, the orchestra builds into a loud, epic and brass-heavy crescendo, grabbing your attention straight away and then refusing to let go as frantic percussion and flurries of brass arrive, and the action begins. Much like with his music for Jedi: Fallen Order and Squadrons, Haab utilises a breathtaking ability to not only mimick the compositional style of Williams, but also weave the composer’s iconic sound for Star Wars throughout the music to the point where sometimes its almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Walker Assault opens the long-awaited album, and composer Gordy Haab wastes absolutely no time in diving straight into the incredibly John Williams-esque musical style of his Star Wars game scores. At long last, Gordy Haab’s wondrous scores for EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront games have been released, and with this first one we dive into a brilliantly stylised musical world one rich with the orchestral and aesthetical power of Star Wars.
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