Marcin Przybylowicz & Jason Graves

Hard West & Hard West 2 (Deluxe) (Orange & Turquoise)

$41.98

Release Date: 02/24/2023
Format: 2 X LP
Label: Laced Records – LMLP183, Devolver Digital
Release type: Orange / Turquoise Colored Double Vinyl LP Pressing

With a gun full of lead and a fistful of witchcraft, Laced Records has formed a posse with Ice Code Games and Good Shepherd Entertainment to bring you music from turn-based supernatural westerns Hard West and Hard West 2 to good ol’ wax.

All music has been remastered for vinyl and will be pressed onto heavyweight LPs. Disc 1 is transparent orange and features the full 14-track OST from 2015’s Hard West. Disc 2 is transparent light blue and boasts 9 tracks selected from the Hard West 2 soundtrack. LPs come in printed inners, which are housed in a spined sleeve. Sleeve artwork for Hard West is by Grzegorz Przybyś, while Division48 Studio created the sleeve art for Hard West 2.

With Hard West, Marcin Przybyłowicz (Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077) set the mood for the series, employing twanging guitar, pounding drum beats, lonely trumpets and various atmospheric elements. On several of his more anxious cues, snatches of piano, guitar and violin emerge from the echoey fog to keep players on edge, while maintaining the heightened mix of fantasy-horror and Wild West aesthetics.

For Hard West 2, Jason Graves (Dead Space 1&2, Tomb Raider [2013], Dark Pictures Anthology) gets grittier and grungier, while honouring the sound world of the original. Through his spartan use of bass guitar, percussion, and spooky synths, Graves summons a more primal, earthy sound, while still layering in the acoustic and electric guitars we associate with the dark side of the West.

(Hard West 1)

Welcome to the Hard West
Heat Around the Corner
Story of a Murderer
Born Unto Trouble
The Road
Blood
Dies Irae
Dream Town
The Wrath of God
What's in the Box
Who Killed the World
Dance of the Daemons
Every Prophet in His House
Into the Darkness

(Hard West 2)

Hard West II
Gunslingers
Running Out Of Time
Utah Fever
Lament For The West
Echoing Lead
Shadowless Noon
Shadow Dance
Undead Army