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Halo 4's soundtrack is fantastic.
Requiem's sound is so incredibly rich it blows my mind. Only someone who worked with Massive Attack would be able to accomplish such a perfect "pewww" sound.
Belly of the Beast, Faithless and Ascendancy, especially the second, are very close to what Marty has done. They're not exactly brilliant works of art, but so aren't Marty's similar tracks: they're not supposed to be, they're more like "gameplay music".
Haven's theme (especially the B C B G F# G motif) is just... phenomenal.
Nemesis is awesome. The end. Marty would have never composed this, true, but that just means the composers are different people with different styles.
Solace is very different from Marty's works, but equally as great. Just beautiful!
To Galaxy: dat brass!
Immaterial is just... wow... such sonic richness! Such an organic sound! Truly remarkable.
117: dat -blamming!- theme!
Arrival and Revival are excellent too.
Green and Blue is my favorite one.
Campaign spoilers ahead: you have been warned.
I don't like to listen to this track because it always makes me think of the ending of the final mission, the cinematic with the Chief and Cortana (hence the name), and I have very mixed feelings about that whole... situation: on one hand, it's the culmination of Halo for me (everything about that scene is perfect), on the other it's just so incredibly sad, yet it isn't because, well, it isn't. It's hard to explain. I just can't listen to this in public (the library, for instance) because people start looking and they somehow notice how I'm feeling.
This track is fantastic. The downward (incomplete) arpeggio in B is incredible as well - not the notes themselves (herp, B F# B), but the sound of it.
As a musician who only listens to erudite music (and some Jazz too [Charles Mingus ftw]), I find Davidge's sound to be of an unprecedented richness (especially in "Requiem"), and I value that a lot because, well, I'm very used to the orchestral and piano sounds, and not all this electronic goodness.
Sure, he's not as technical and erudite as Marty is, but they have very different backgrounds, so that's to be expected. His sound is spectacular, though.
Does it sound like Halo to me? Yes it does. It's fresh and new, but it's Halo alright.
[Edited on 11.20.2012 3:29 PM PST]