Score: Excellent Label: La-La Land Records Released: February 24, 2014 Tracks / Album Length: CD1: 25 tracks / (52:20) + CD2: 28 tracks / (71:23) Special Notes: Colour booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond / Limited to 2000 copies. Review: Jerry Goldsmith scored The Sand Pebbles, Seconds, Stagecoach, The Trouble with Angels, Our […]
Right from the urgent Main Title with its twirling brass and an unwavering sense of urgency, It! Just grabs the listener the way most classic B-movies were supposed to: hard, fast, and keeping the audience hypnotized and hungry for blood when nothing was happening (and maybe didn’t)…
In a film where almost the entire drama occurs inside an abandoned hospital, Benjamin Wallfisch (Dear Wendy, Hammer of the Gods) adds both scope and subtext using a driving rhythm and recurring fragments of a gentle main theme, often played on piano or accentuated with delicate woorwinds…
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / M . Rating: Very Good Label: Sony Classical / Released: February 4, 2014 Tracks & Album Length: 25 tracks / (60:32) . Special Notes: n/a . Composer: Alexandre Desplat . . Review: Alexandre Desplat channels the spirit of classic Hollywood film scoring with this large-scale orchestral work featuring a buoyant […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / P to R . Rating: Very Good Label: WaterTower Music / Released: September 17, 2013 Tracks & Album Length: 16 tracks / (55:22) . Special Notes: n/a . Composer: Jóhann Jóhannsson . . Review: Unfolding like a dragged-out incantation, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score is build around a step-like ascending / descending […]
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