(Image credit: Left: thatgamecompany. Right: BioWare)

Composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Stray Gods, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate) just shared 20 minutes of music he wrote as a sort of audition/starting point for the score of Mass Effect 5, aka. Mass Effect: Universe. According to Wintory, he had been in "serious conversation" with BioWare and EA to provide the game's soundtrack.

To be clear: This was not music that was 100% slated to appear in the game, but it sounds like Wintory was on the shortest of shortlists for the job. The effective EP is presented as "My Mass Effect 5 early musical drafts" and "Mass Effect: Universe, the music that might have been."

My Mass Effect 5 early musical drafts - YouTube

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Wintory wrote that he wanted to "surprise [EA and BioWare] with an elaborate production" in 2025, and that the music was recorded with "synths, vocals, and a large orchestra here in LA." Noting that he didn't have story details for the in-development game, Wintory came up with speculative themes…