Despite the current pandemic largely shutting down theaters and film releases, quite a few excellent scores released in March. While I cover several in-depth, score to the bottom of the page for a list of a whole lot more! Drone, […]
To do something a bit topical, I’ve compiled a list of the 10 best pandemic film scores of all time. However, the list is quite fluid with several of the scores on the final list able to swap positions on […]
Daniel Pemberton kicks off another month of excellent scores with Birds of Prey. The work is brimming with a sense of controlled chaos, matching the high-energy, frantic nature of its main character, Harley Quinn. Pemberton also injects a wide musical variety for […]
Although January 2019 had some very solid scores, it was still a fairly muted start to the year. This January is different. Instead, it’s seemingly filled with too many good scores too count (and unfortunately, far too many to cover). […]
After listening to nearly 700 scores released in 2019, I present the definitive list of the best film scores of the year.
What is there to say about John Williams’ score for The Rise of Skywalker? It marks a true end of an era, not only the end of the Skywalker trilogy of trilogies but also, by all accounts, the conclusion of […]
It’s that time of year, when everyone comes out with their ‘best of’ lists. After listening to nearly 700 film scores released in 2019, I’m ready. Up first are the most underrated scores of the year. These are ones that, […]
Too often film music takes things a bit too seriously, making Nathan Johnson’s score to Knives Out all the more refreshing. Johnson manages to have some fun without it becoming completely irreverent. The clearest example is “The Thrombey Family Theme,” […]
October has been far and away the strongest month this year for new film scores. The downside of this eruption is that there are simply too many, with quite a few otherwise worthy scores being left out of this writeup. Oppression […]
Short films present a unique challenge for film composers: their diminutive length makes the music (or lack thereof) all the more noticeable. It’s much easier for a short film to be overscored or for its music to be overwhelming and […]
Folk music has long been a genre I’ve wanted to see employed more in film music, and Zviad Mgebry and Ben Wheeler’s score for And Then We Danced makes this wish come true. The duo draws heavily on (what I […]
This month Hans Zimmer released something I’ve never really seen – a B-side to Dark Phoenix. Xperiments from Dark Phoenix is a compilation of select cuts from the over sixteen hours of material Zimmer and his team (a dozen other […]