2021 keeps on giving with great film scores, including one of my favorites of the year: Daniel Hart’s medieval-filled The Green Knight. As always, if you think I’ve missed any scores from this month (or any past months), leave a […]
Welcome to the first volume of “Short and Sweet,” the new series focused solely on short film music. I’ve always viewed short film as integral to the filmmaking experience and hugely important for those just starting out (as well as […]
I’ve decided to start visiting years past, from before I actively listened to film music, and come up with retrospective best-of lists. Not only is it a good way to revisit missed classics and get a feel for the year […]
With Monos, Mica Levi has further established themselves as the foremost contemporary experimental film composer, using dissonance and unconventional instrumentation and composition to build tension and unease. The score’s most striking music is also its most jarring. Sounds akin to […]
After listening to nearly 700 scores released in 2019, I present the definitive list of the best film scores of the year.
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 […]
What does it mean to be human? Is it to be loved, to face conflict, to make choices and feel their consequences? In Mica Levi’s score for Under the Skin humanity is anxiety, fear, and isolation. Those fleeting positive moments […]