Bottom Line Up Front: A great album to drown out the background noise.
Rating: Thumbs Up, it’s in the mx.
Directions: Listen from start to finish, realize it’s no longer playing, and repeat. That was how I ended up listening to Ramin Djawadi’s soundtrack to EA’s 2012 Medal of Honor: Warfighter. As one who doesn’t really have time to play video games anymore (we’re talking the original Golden Eye being the last time I did so) I only recently found this album while looking among other Djawadi soundtracks.
My immediate thoughts are simple, the overall tone isn’t too hard and actually makes for a great album to drown out the noise of a busy household while working from home during the coronavirus ordeal. There is definitely an overall theme to the music; slight undertones of meaningful, if not depressed, Spanish guitar throughout the entirety (less a song or two) and an unstated level of the seriousness of the mission(s) (i.e., I’m probably not coming home from this one).
A song that caught my attention a few times while listening was “Bridge the Gap.” The opening of the song has a LOST (as in the TV show) vibe/feel too it but quickly turns to a very serious piece giving one the imagination of a fighting team making their way through a narrow yet hostel land mass. Again, I haven’t played the game, but it’s easy to imagine.
I also enjoyed listening “H.A.H.O.” on repeat; it has a few of the sounds you’ll find in Djawadi’s soundtrack to EA’s 2010 Medal of Honor. I’ve read that some people were disappointed in the merging of sounds (it was some years ago, I think on a LAST FM (?) board), however, I rather enjoy the familiarity- I’ll even go so far as to call it continuity- of the sounds.
Though this wouldn’t really be a go-to for a workout-routine album, it’s not too bad for just drowning out the noise.
And as a bonus, below is Linkin Park's “Castle of Glass” video as it was used for Warfighter’s promotional trailer.
The songs:
- For Rabbit
- Deploy
- NOC Out
- Lean’s Theme
- Kit Up
- Restless Natives
- Blackbird on a Wire
- Bridge the Gap
- Saa’iq
- The Raid
- Force Multiplier
- Old Friend, New Foe
- Victory at Sea
- Resolve
- Green Light
- H.A.H.O.
- Medal Run
- For Mother
- Buzz in the Air
- Lean’s Dream
- With Honors
- Other: Castle of Glass (Linkin Park)
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