Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Original game soundtrack) [2 Pink and Blue vinyls]

Bloom & Rage is a constructed soundtrack for a group that only exists in a video game, four teenage girls in 1995 forming a group that finally gets its own physical release, spread across 2LPs in pink and blue.

Don't Nod Montreal, the studio behind Life is Strange, built this narrative game around Swann, Nora, Autumn and Kat, whose summer friendship and punk band in formation haunt them 27 years later when a buried secret resurfaces. The soundtrack fits this split timeline with two distinct registers: an original score by Milk & Bone's Camille Poliquin and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne handling the atmosphere and memory of it all, and a series of real '90s riot grrrl and alt-rock, with Babes in Toyland, Beach House, and members of Bratmobile among them, representing the music these girls would have actually listened to.

See You in Hell, attributed to the fictional Nora Kelly Band and performed by Ruth Radelet of Chromatics, is the in-game single and the emotional anchor of the record. Riot takes Milk & Bone's score into truly catchy territory, and Liminal Spaces sits at the other end, all murmurs and unresolved tension, exactly the sound of a memory you haven't finished processing.

Nineteen tracks spread across two cassettes, for a group that never technically existed and yet seems completely real.