Perhaps no other entry in Adam Young's soundtrack series contains as many satisfying grooves as The Spirit of St. Louis. Even from the downbeat of the first track, you know you're in for a ride.

The pathos and emotional character of RMS Titanic is stunning. Every track finds its mark. Young once again presents a variety of emotional character, from the lighthearted joy of boarding, to the wayfaring hope and optimism of the first voyage, to the downright horror and panic of being abandoned in the middle of the ocean. The thing that marks all these emotions though, is their realism: nothing is blown out of proportion, and nothing is sensationalized. As far as any music can go in depicting an actual event, what you're getting from Young in RMS Titanic feels like a 1:1 ratio of what actually happened.

Adam Young, the artist behind the electronica project Owl City, took a break from the mainstream world in 2016 to, in his words, "make music for the sake of creating nothing but pure, bold, trailblazing art." The result was 11 conceptual soundtracks for historical events as they played out in his mind's eye. Being a longtime fan of Owl City, and sharing Young's love of film scores, I decided to follow his endeavour with interest.

Starting here, I will investigate each of his 11 scores from 2016, looking at what worked, and what didn't, in an effort to join in alongside on the journey.