Backrooms soundtrack: Complete list of songs and music listed in the movie
Backrooms soundtrack 2026 (Image via IMDb)
The soundtrack for Backrooms (2026) feels a bit unlike most horror movie albums. Instead of leaning on licensed pop songs or radio favorites, the film sort of builds that unsettling atmosphere with an original score, written by Frank Dikos.
Complete Backrooms (2026) soundtrack tracklist
It came out at the same time as the film, on May 27, 2026, and the official score album has 27 tracks. Each one kind of guides you through that maze-like world of endless yellow corridors, abandoned rooms and spaces that don’t really make sense. Even the track titles in their own way suggest the movie’s themes of memory, nostalgia, and that recurring spatial confusion people associate with the Backroom concept.
- Handprint
- People in San Jose
- Local Network
- Pirate Shanty
- Furniture Lament
- The Untrained Mind
- Quiet Wall in Dark Room
- Basement Land
- Ottoman Empire
- Next Room Over
- Feeling of a Door Imminently Remembered
- Capitol & McKee
- Cafe Bossa v1 (featuring Jeffrey Innes)
- Open the Window
- 4-PCH
- Paint
- You Know Me
- Dining Room
- Landsick
- Homothet
- Layout Extrapolation
- Furnished Dead End
- Wired
- Cold Floor
- Humble MRI Company
- Old Home Not Yet Built
- Complex
Some of the more noticeable songs are Dining Room, which clocks in at over eight minutes, then there is Humble MRI Company, and finally the closing track, Complex.
Why the soundtrack feels different from traditional horror scores
One of the more interesting parts of the Backroom’s soundtrack is how it sort of avoids the usual horror movie cues, where we get alerted to a jump-scare stinger. Instead of leaning hard on sudden scares, Frank Dikos stays with atmosphere and a kind of mental pressure. The tracks like Quiet Wall in Dark Room, Layout Extrapolation, and Furnished Dead End make us feel locked in, and a little unsure what comes next, more lonely uncertainty than outright terror.
Also, the music kind of mirrors the internet roots of the Backroom mythos. A lot of the time, it sounds nostalgic while also being unsettling, like you’re recognizing a place, but you also know, deep down, something is off, wrong in a basic way.
Is there a licensed song soundtrack
From what is known about the soundtrack so far, Backrooms mostly uses original score pieces rather than a set of licensed songs. This music works like the emotional and atmospheric spine of the movie, helping turn everyday places into that nightmare-y landscape. For people into moody atmospheric horror music, the album ends up feeling like a full listening experience, it plays well inside the film, and it still stands on its own as a separate soundtrack too.
