Game soundtracks

What the hell is it with independant games having the best soundtracks around?

Braid's soundtrack

http://braid-game.com/news/?p=260

was one of the best every created and I've just found a download link (free and legit) for the World of Good one

http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack

which has been keeping me smiling at work for most of the day.

Anyway, I find it odd that other games don't have this level of awesomeness injected into their soundtracks. The one for Vampire Bloodlines was awesome but other than that, we haven't had much that's genuinely fantastic. And by fantastic, I mean you can listen to it independantly of the game and you still have an emotional reaction to it, as you should with all good music.

Of the best games in the last few years, Other than Braid and World of Goo, what decent music was there? Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2, CoD4, Mass Effect, Grid, Left 4 Dead, Red Alert 3, HL2E2 etc. etc. all had music which was a gigantic Meh. Even Portal (which had that masterpiece of a song) had a soundtrack that, whilst very good, didn't transcend the game in the way you would have hoped.

I think part of the issue is every indie game is created by quite a small team, who all know the point of the project. In larger games, the sound track chaps don't feel the same level of intergration with the project so don't have the emotional attachment they need to make a truely great soundtrack.

Ah well. One more reason to buy indie games I suppose :)