Editing Music of Minecraft (section)

== Reception ==
The soundtrack's [[Minimal music|minimalistic]] and melancholic composition has been praised by critics.<ref name="KillScreen">{{Cite web |title=The quiet importance of the Minecraft soundtrack |url=https://killscreen.com/articles/quiet-importance-minecraft-soundtrack/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808234140/https://killscreen.com/articles/quiet-importance-minecraft-soundtrack/ |archive-date=8 August 2018 |access-date=21 March 2018 |website=Kill Screen}}</ref> Keith Stuart of ''[[The Guardian]]'' noted that Rosenfeld's "wilting, minimalist tracks, slow-paced and slightly melancholy, recall the ambient works of [[Erik Satie|Satie]] and [[Brian Eno|Eno]]", calling it the game's "perfect accompaniment."<ref name="Guardian22" /> In 2018, Jamie Hornsey of student newspaper [[The Boar (newspaper)|''The Boar'']] described the soundtrack's composition as "nostalgia in its purest form," adding: "By encouraging players to associate pieces of music with certain actions, the game becomes capable of conjuring incredibly vivid images in the player’s mind."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hornsey |first=Jamie |date=31 January 2018 |title=The lasting power of Minecraft's procedurally-generated music |url=https://theboar.org/2018/01/minecraft-c418-soundtrack/ |access-date=21 March 2018 |website=[[The Boar (newspaper)|The Boar]]}}</ref>

Much of the soundtrack's retrospective praise has been directed at ''Volume Alpha'', where Evan Tridone of ''The Review'' called the album "arguably the best ambient album to be released this decade."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tridone |first=Evan |date=12 May 2019 |title=Five fantastic albums to put on when studying |url=https://udreview.com/five-fantastic-albums-to-put-on-when-studying/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |website=The Review |language=en-US}}</ref> Writing for ''Kotaku'', Luke Plunkett praised it as a "great album" and as "tranquil as a good night's sleep."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plunkett |first=Luke |date=9 March 2011 |title=The Soothing Sounds Of...Minecraft? |url=https://kotaku.com/the-soothing-sounds-of-minecraft-5779319 |access-date=3 March 2023 |website=[[Kotaku]] |language=en}}</ref>

In 2022, the ''Minecraft'' soundtrack placed at number 54 on Australian radio station [[ABC Classic]]'s [[Classic 100 Countdowns|top 100 countdown]], as voted by listeners.<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 June 2022 |title=Counting down from #71 to #48 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/classic/classic-100/classic-100-music-for-the-screen-2022-71-to-48/13904968 |access-date=3 April 2023 |website=[[ABC Classic]] |language=en-AU}}</ref>