Let's face it, Andromeda's music was lacking

I figured since I wanted to change my profile pic (and perhaps signature), I may as well revert back to my previous name. I like to mix things up. BioWare, on the other hand, should not have mixed up the music!

I'm sure they'd love to come back if BioWare gave them the opportunity. Rarely do I ever hear of a composer refusing to come back to do a new score for a very successful AAA game. It's easy money and it bolsters their reputation in the public eye. BioWare just likes to inject variety and not rely on the same composer for too many games. Just as an example:

Jeremy Soule composed the score for KOTOR 1.
Jack Wall composed the score for JE.
Jack Wall and Sam Hulick composed the score for ME1 and ME2.
Sam Hulick, Clint Mansell, and various others composed the score for ME3.
Inon Zur composed the score for DAO and DAII.
Trevor Morris composed the score for DAI.
John Paesano composed the score for MEA.

Jack Wall is a bit unusual since he did the soundtrack for Jade Empire and the first two Mass Effect games. But otherwise, BioWare likes to constantly bring in new talent. So far, MEA is BioWare's least inspiring soundtrack to date. I didn't like DAI much better either. I'm hoping that the new IP blows me away, because BioWare games have been seriously lacking in the music department since ME3.

Ok I think they were really trying to be super different with Andromeda mainly due to the kerfuffle over ME3's ending. Wasn't my favorite, but I got over it and it doesn't bother me as much. . I just think they went a bit overboard in trying to be different. I think they felt forced to. With the music especially - as I said a lot of the love from the OT came from the terrific music.  So Andromeda can of course have new characters, locations, story and stuff but really wanted the same kinda music from the OT.

The Andromeda OST was perfectly fine.

The problem: THEY BARELY USED THE FUCKING SOUNDTRACK THEY PAID TO BE PRODUCED

I can count on my hands the amount of times some background music truly came up during a cinematic or mission. It's absurd how completely wasted the soundtrack was, because the game was so silent music wise.

I would have liked to see more allusions to the themes of the original trilogy. Overall, the soundtrack was pretty bland. A Better Beginning is pretty solid as menu music, and I love the ME Theme that pops up at the end, but there should have been more of that throughout. Allusions to the past aren't bad, and shouldn't be hidden Bioware. Halo 4 and 5 did the same thing, and ultimately the music was just bland and lacked the identity of what came before.

I thought the music around Noveria was good while exploring - don't remember Feros though.

*sigh*

The only memorable Andromeda music was that OST in the trailer when the NPC backgrounds were revealed. Forgot what it was called but it was quite lovely.

Other than that, where's the music? If it was subdued, why?

I must have been lucky to have music playing in game. I did enjoy the soundtrack very much. However, I found most of it to be generic and not have any memorable hooks or melodies aside from the title menu to differentiate it from most movie soundtracks. I still like to listen to it outside the game though.

I'm only human?

We have "Vigil", "Spectre Introduction" in ME1; "Suicide Mission", "Normandy Reborn" in ME2; "I Was Lost Without You", "An End Once And For All", "Future for the Krogan" in ME3. These still give me goosebumps and teary eyes after more than 5 years. Yet most of the new songs in ME:A seem so easy to forget. They should have hired the old composers. IMO, some of the songs they used on the gameplay trailer are better than the OST. For example:

To be honest while ME1's soundtrack was still good, it didn't do anything amazing for me.

That said, Suicide Mission is one of the best video game tracks to date. I would say it's my second favourite behind Red Alert's Hell March.

I have to agree that Andromeda's feels a bit meh. Nothing was terrible, but I can't remember anything that stood out either.