“Cure for the Malaise” is Odd Orbit’s interpretation and arrangement of Yoann Laulan’s soundtrack from the video game Dead Cells. Some of the songs are faithful representations of the original music and others have had their structure completely deconstructed and rebuilt. Many sections include our own riffs and melodies, effectively making “Cure for the Malaise” a hybrid of a video game arrange album and the proper followup to our 2020 EP, “Before Time Ends”.
Yoann’s Dead Cells soundtrack can be found here:
valmontderagondas.bandcamp.com/album/dead-cells-soundtrack-part-1
While each of the three songs on the album is arranged as a suite to provide a chronological journey through three different paths of the game, this album is meant to be listened to as one cohesive piece of music. 0BC represents the default difficulty and initial levels of the game, 5BC represents the highest difficulty through the true final boss, and 2BC is somewhere in the middle, having themes from the levels that are in the middle of the game that wouldn’t fit in the other two suites due to on level traversal logistics. This album is based off of Rise of the Giant, which was released as Dead Cells version 1.2.
Please note, there are 5BC spoilers in the track listing below!
“0BC: The Caw of the Crows”
0:00 - Dead Cells/Title Screen
0:37 - Prisoner’s Quarters/Main Theme
1:49 - Promenade of the Condemned
2:45 - The Merchant
4:21 - Prison’s Rooftops/Ramparts
5:28 - Black Bridge/Concierge
6:35 - Stilt Village
7:40 - Clock Tower
8:44 - Formerly Known as Assassin/Timekeeper
10:05 - The Collector
11:21 - High Peak Castle
13:03 - Prisoner’s Quarters/Main Theme (reprise)
14:19 - Throne Room/The Hand of the King
“2BC: Transferred to the Depths”
0:00 - Prison Depths
0:41 - Ossuary
1:23 - Slumbering Sanctuary
1:43 - The Crypt/Forgotten Sepulcher
“5BC: Nothing Left to Collect”
0:00 - Dead Cells/Title Screen (reprise)
0:51 - Prisoner’s Quarters/Main Theme (reprise)
1:14 - Toxic Sewers
1:40 - The Old Sewers/Ancient Sewers
2:19 - Conjunctivius
3:58 - Food Merchant (reprise)
4:38 - The Cemetery/Graveyard
5:37 - Cavern
7:25 - Giant’s Haven/The Giant
8:33 - Throne Room/The Hand of the King (reprise)
9:18 - Astrolab
10:56 - Observatory (including Dead Cells/Title Screen reprise)
11:47 - The Collector (reprise)
12:09 - Time for Your Medicine/The Collector (battle)
12:38 - The Collector/Prisoner’s Quarters/Main Theme (various reprises)
14:09 - Credits
released December 31, 2021
Music and themes from Dead Cells written by Yoann Laulan.
Original music and themes written by Odd Orbit.
“5BC: Nothing Left to Collect” features music from the Odd Orbit songs “Blue Harvest”, “TGD”, and “Cygnus X-2”, originally recorded on the “Before Time Ends” EP.
oddorbit.bandcamp.com/album/before-time-ends
Produced, arranged, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Odd Orbit (Brian Galiano and Tommy Ciulla).
Special thanks: Yoann, Motion Twin, Jim (FringeMusic107), and Boo.
This project was created and released out of love and respect.