Hollow Knight composer Christopher Larkin returns with a typically atmospheric score for Silksong – heavily based on string instruments, naturally. You can head to YouTube for a sample of the wonderfully frantic accompaniment to the boss fight against Hornet’s rival, Lace. “There’s a really funny process that we’ve had with Chris, where for some tracks for some sequences, we’ve talked to Chris about, say, the lore or the narrative of a moment,” Gibson says. “And it’s often the other tracks where nothing is really talked about other than the most basic idea, that end up being the strongest.” Lace’s theme was simply a boss track Larkin had been independently working on; Gibson and Pellen feel their deep familiarity with what’s going on in the game can almost cloud Larkin’s creative vision. “David Lynch talks about ‘not describing the dream’,” Gibson says. “William and I have, through this long ongoing conversation, this complicated understanding of all the working parts. But if we try and articulate too much of that outside of ourselves, it suddenly starts to become quite mechanical.”