MP3: Spore Hero (2009)
Winifred Phillips’ score for the Nintendo Wii video game begins with a brassy heroic theme’s filled with the brassy swagger of a swashbuckling actioner, and yet there’s a contemporary rock edge…
Category: Soundtrack Reviews
MP3: Privileged, The (2013)
Jeff Toyne’s third film score for writer / director Leah Walker (after the short The Knockout and prior feature film The Third Eye) is an eerie, silky orchestral score pretty much bereft of brass instruments and overt electronics. Toyne’s strengths are in creating very precise moods using strong themes, and the music of The Privileged is anchored to a moving piece which lends itself to utterly bleak presentations…
MP3: Bad Words (2014)
Rolfe Kent’s music for Bad Words is another light score designed to support a tale of irrational, impulsive human behaviour without drawing attention to the music. The composer’s instrumental palette is comprised of mostly woodwinds played with breathy exasperation, a jaunty rhythm, and a piano which sometimes offers little moments of sobering introspection…
MP3: Knights of Badassdom (2013)
The combination of folk instruments, a little classical, and chunks of heavy metal make sense in uplifting a tale where a trio of Dungeons and Dragons players conjure real-life danger, but Knights of Badassdom also feels like a natural development for composer Bear McCreary after his Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome (2013)…
MP3: Legend of Hercules (2014)
Tuomas Kanteline’s writing feels both physically and emotionally epic, and from the lengthy cues which make up this engrossing album, it seems he was given liberties to ease into his material in slow waves, moving carefully from gentle to brooding sections (“Intervention of the Gods”)…
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