I’ve started to become concerned, or perhaps a little worried, that there is a world of older film scores filled with great melodies and sounds that have never been formally released, leaving them almost hidden. While some smaller record labels […]
For as big as techno is as a music genre, and for as long as it’s been in the mainstream, it’s been fairly underutilized in film scoring. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s 90s techno throwback score for Challengers may finally […]
“This is the scariest release I’ve ever heard”
Growing up, very few things were constant for me. Mac & Cheese and Dr. Pepper would forever be the best, MTV played some great videos, and from October of 1988 through March of 1990, my Saturday evenings would be terrifying, […]
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by John Carpenter & Dave Davies (Limited Record Store Day Exclusive LP) While this writer will forever bow at the altar of John Carpenter’s solo work, there’s something very appealing about when the “Master of Horror” […]
The Addams Family are known for being creepy, kooky, and altogether ooky. Fortunately, while composer Marc Shaiman embraces the Family’s iconic traits, his score shows just enough restraint to prevent the film from being too over the top. It would […]
Scores for Christmas films tend to be filled with the same cliched, seasonal sounds. Danny Elfman creates an alternative Christmas classic in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Rather than jingling bells and children’s choirs, Elfman creates the soundtrack to a kooky […]
Cyberpunk gives composers great musical flexibility. Not only is “futuristic” sounding music appropriate, but so is contemporary and classical music. After all, cyberpunk is often a dark imagining of our current trajectory. Rory McFarlane, in his score for the UK […]
Sometimes things are not what they seem. Take Demolition Man. At first glance it’s the dumb, brutishishness you’d expect from a 1993 action movie starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. But it’s also an oddball comedy and social critique and […]
In an uncharacteristic twist, one of the most famous modern composers agreed to make the soundtrack for a somewhat strange, B-tier horror movie. Philip Glass believed that Candyman would be an artsy, independent re-telling of Clive Barker’s original short story. Much […]
Most westerns contain many grandiose shots of great untamed landscapes – wide rivers, soaring mountains, sprawling valleys. These shots tend to be sweeping and slow-to-develop, allowing for an equally grandiose score to fill the void. This relationship puts the focus […]