Official Braid soundtrack available from Magnatune, has awesome music

As you may have heard, Braid is quite an excellent game. It has beautiful art, wonderful story and a great gameplay idea with solid execution. As an icing on the cake, Jonathan Blow licensed music from several artists through Magnatune, and while I generally don't think that licensing is the best solution when game music is considered, the selections are so fitting that it feels like the music was made for the game.

So, the music has been previously available in Magnatune, iTunes and Amazon MP3 on their original albums, as well as single tracks on some services. But now, in celebration of the PC release of Braid, Blow has worked with Magnatune to put together an actual soundtrack with two additional remix tracks to boot. And that's just awesome. The album is called Music from Braid (shocking, I know), and you can preview all the tracks in the album page. I previously didn't want to buy the music because of how it was spread across different albums with no official tracklist, and I can't use Amazon MP3 because of my location, and iTunes is just donkey's balls, so this is wonderful news for me.

If this wasn't awesome enough news, I should also mention that Magnatune offers their catalog in perfect WAVs and FLACs, high quality VBR MP3s and OGGs, even on lower quality 128CBR MP3s and OSX AAC files. The choice is yours, and yours alone. And there is no DRM, and you can redownload whatever you bought later, as long as you remember the email address you used with the purchase. That's how digital purchase should always work.

So, I already bought mine and am downloading it right now! Go and buy it, now! Here's a link for you again! GO! GO! GO!

Posted in Gaming by Kilu on April 22nd 2009 at 2:59pm