{"id":3026,"date":"2011-06-10T12:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2011-06-10T12:57:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:57:37","slug":"cd-scream-4-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=3026","title":{"rendered":"CD: Scream 4 (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label: Varese Sarabande\/ Released: April 19, 2011<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 21 tracks \/ (57:34)<\/p>\n

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Composer: Marco Beltrami<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/p>\n

Fans of the satirical franchise may still have their hearts allied with Marco Beltrami\u2019s first Scream<\/strong> score, but his fourth outing \u2013 meatier, at nearly an hour on CD \u2013 manages to work in spite of being generally low key.<\/p>\n

Beltrami\u2019s focus is on peripheral sonics, brooding undercurrents, and little thematic snippets rather than the direct approach employed in the first film, and the orchestral palette is a more organic balance of electronic and orchestral sounds.<\/p>\n

Sidney\u2019s Theme is still a blend of fuzzy electronics and sampled chorals, but it\u2019s been stretched into a more nuanced version, evoking Sidney\u2019s suspicions and distrust in broad strokes with the odd percussive stab. A distant female voice figures as a lament in \u201cWhen You Let Someone Go,\u201d and it\u2019s a simple piece that covers Sid\u2019s repressed trauma without clich\u00e9d, overwrought instrumentation.<\/p>\n

The theme variation \u201cI Know How You Feel\u201d features a brief piano and string interpretation, and it\u2019s a fine example of Beltrami\u2019s ability to write empathetic material for a character with epic demons in her past; the instrumental gentility helps render what\u2019s now a genre archetype more humane, and counterbalances the standard shock stabs she\u2019s going to encounter by the boatload as the film reaches its conclusion.<\/p>\n

Beltrami\u2019s style during the nineties was big orchestral scores with ferocious brass writing for horrific moments, but he\u2019s toned down the shock factor in favour of unrelenting unease, so while there are a handful of snarling cues, much of Scream 4<\/strong> deals with looming terror prior<\/em> to the assault.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also chosen a smaller sounding orchestra, perhaps to emphasis the plights of a few characters, since the expanse of human chum that dominated the first and second films is dialed down.<\/p>\n

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Varese\u2019s CD offers up a solid 57 mins. of score, and those wanting the source songs can find them on Lakeshore Records\u2019 35 mins., which contains 10 songs and 2 cues by Beltrami: \u201cDon\u2019t Mess with the Original\u201d and \u201cJill\u2019s America,\u201d edited suites of theme and brief underscore cues present on the Varese disc.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2011 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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