Life Is Strange didn’t just wow players with its gripping time travel sci-fi story and lovable characters, it made an impact with its music as well.
Glass marks the return to Arcadia Bay, and also the start of a new story. Glass retains shades of musical themes and notes reminiscent of the original score, but does enough to differentiate itself from the old. Then the guitar fades and distorts, giving way to vocals that are foreign and new before launching into a proper drum beat as the guitar kicks in once more. At first, everything feels acoustic and familiar, like how you’d imagine the Arcadia Bay hipster student anthem would sound, if they had one. The deep guitar strums evoke memories of the original Life Is Strange.
Glass is the first track Daughter opens up with in Before the Storm’s soundtrack, and it serves as the closing theme to the first episode, Awake. How fitting is it that the very first piece in Before the Storm’s exquisite soundtrack should so perfectly encapsulate the Life Is Strange narrative? The ennui of teenage life, the longing for something that feels out of reach, the inevitable sense of hope that arises from pain and heartbreak.
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