Category: Soundtrack Reviews

CD: From Inside (2008)

CD: From Inside (2008)

October 31, 2014 | By

Gary Numan’s second film score so far (after 1991’s The Unborn) is a collaboration with Ade Fenton for John Bergin’s own animated film version of his post-apocalyptic graphic novel. Unsurprisingly, the instrumental palette is comprised of industrial electronica…

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CD: Damned, The (2014)

CD: Damned, The (2014)

October 6, 2014 | By

Perhaps in keeping with the apparent tradition of Spanish horror films being graced with muscular orchestral scores, director Victor Garcia’s The Damned features a very robust score by Frederik Wiedmann, a composer known for combining classical orchestral writing with modernism and an organic use of electronic elements…

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CD: Field of Lost Shoes (2014)

CD: Field of Lost Shoes (2014)

October 6, 2014 | By

With an orchestra and choir at his hands, Frederik Wiedmann’s written an epic score for the Civil War drama Field of Lost Shoes, based on the 1864 battle in which teen recruits defended the Shenandoah Valley…

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CD: Grand Piano (2013)

CD: Grand Piano (2013)

October 6, 2014 | By

Victor Reyes’ “Main Titles” is a fantastic mix of agitated rhythms redolent of Ennio Morricone’s work (notably The Untouchables’ fat bass line) and mounting textures which introduce a smidge of melody in a cue that’s otherwise representative of madness about to explode from pent-up pressure…

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MP3: No Good Deed (2014)

MP3: No Good Deed (2014)

October 6, 2014 | By

For this newest entry in the ‘unwanted stranger’ sub-genre, Paul Haslinger built his score around a two-beat motif which essentially forms the motor, propelling the film through its inaugural scenes of tension, and subsequent taunting and torment…

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