One of the surprising elements of 2019’s Death Stranding was the involvement of Scottish band Chvrches. Chvrches performed the song also called Death Stranding, the title track of the 2019 album Death Stranding Timefall.
Music outlet NME recently interviewed members of Chvrches about working on a Death Stranding 2 soundtrack, given their publicly known friendship with the game’s lead producer, Hideo Kojima.
Chvrches member Martin Doherty had this to say about the possibility of that happening:
“I mean, we’re available. There’s nothing formal yet. We’ve talked [and] we’ve hinted heavily at each other that we would both like to collaborate again.
There’s sort of a dance going on right now. I don’t want to be rejected by all out saying, ‘Can we be on the game please?’ and [Kojima] says no. But I don’t know.
We’re continuing to build a really special relationship with Hideo. And I think we get him and I think he gets us. If the call comes in to do more then of course, we’ll be there in a second.”
Earlier, Chvrches appeared with Hideo Kojima in the Brain Structure podcast. Answering this same question, Kojima had this to say:
“It would be nice if we could make something work. I wanna do something different, something no one has done before. Having one song in the game is expected, right? So what if we had [Chvrches] make like 100 songs or something?”
As exciting as this prospect may be for fans of both Hideo Kojima and Chvrches, they may need to keep something else in mind. Chvrches are signed to Sony Music, and in fact, the artists in the Death Stranding Timefall album were all signed to Sony as well.
Death Stranding was produced and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. So, even if Kojima and Chvrches have a close
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