One of the toughest challenges for any composer with hours of score from a long-running TV series (long-running, in this case, being defined as having matured through 2+ seasons) is to winnow the material down to a faithful representation of the show, its characters, and best-remembered episodes…
Soundtrack reviews of Danny Elfman’s Goosebumps (Sony Classical), Laurent Eyquem’s Momentum (Varese Sarabande), and Pedro Bromfman’s Deep Web (Lakeshore Records).
Danny Elfman returns to his inner Beetlejuice groove with a heavy theme-based score that’s rich in frenetic energy from constantly churning strings and grounded in a youthful vantage via a recurring children’s choir. Most of the score’s instrumentation is quite grand, but there are specifics that make Goosebumps…
There’s a sense the makers of Momentum had a very specific Zimmerlisch sound in mind, and what emerges from Laurent Eyquem’s slick score is a discrete conflict between the sounds tied to big budget sci-fi thrillers verses the composer’s own additions that transcend a work from formulaic to something a bit more innovative…
Like the surreal and ultimately sad tale of brilliant programmer / convicted drug purveyor Ross Ulbricht, Pedro Bromfman’s score unfolds like a series of short, odd tonal statements, offering up a series of details that gradually form into longer statements about a man with a strange mandate of making hard drugs…
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