{"id":8410,"date":"2014-04-04T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T05:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2014-04-04T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:32:52","slug":"mp3-bad-words-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8410","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Bad Words (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"BadWords\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: Back Lot Music<\/a> \/ Universal<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong> \u00a0March 18, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong> \u00a025 tracks \/ (41 mins.)<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> Rolfe Kent<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rolfe Kent\u2019s music for Bad Words <\/b>is another light score designed to support a tale of irrational, impulsive human behaviour without drawing attention to the music. The composer\u2019s 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 (\u201cMeeting Bowman\u201d) to break up the score\u2019s hurried pace, or add a wry sensibility, especially in \u201cPoolside\u201d where the theme\u2019s melodic arc is oddly (but appropriately) reminiscent of Maurice Jarre peculiar melodic structure.<\/p>\n

Most of the tracks are fairly brief \u2013 Kent tends to write lean scores with cues designed to get in \/ out with sharp precision \u2013 and the album does have a steady flow, but the first third tends to hover around a hurried motif, with pizzicato strings and woodwinds. The addition of some brass in \u201cBurning Todd\u201d adds some fresh colours, however, especially when Kent switches to a manic circular figure on keyboard that evokes a little of Saint-Saens\u2019 \u201cDanse Macabre.\u201d<\/p>\n

The score also becomes a little more dramatically emboldened through the inclusion of some great syncopated rhythms between woodwinds, strings, leather clapping sounds, and some eddying figures on lower strings in \u201cBust Your Nut.\u201d Other colours that dominate the final section of the score are marimba and a few cymbal hits in the tension-climbing \u201cTrying to Lose,\u201d and a very<\/i> light use of hurdy-gurdy in the closing cue, \u201cParting Letter to Bowman,\u201d which recaps the main theme and wraps up the score with some of the original jauntiness of the opening tracks.<\/p>\n

The mastering of this digital-only release is very crisp, bringing out the fine details of Kent\u2019s immaculate instrumental palette.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nComposer on IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a> —\u00a0 Soundtrack Album<\/a>
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