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Atli Örvasson swaps leather-wrapped action gore for the sensitive nature of a Holocaust love story. I have to say, I love it when a composer surprise...

Review of Atli Orvasson's score to COLETTE.

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Jóhann Jóhannssen takes on morally murky kidnapping thriller with fascinating results... You may not have heard of Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannss...

Review of Johann Johannssen's score to PRISONERS.

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Legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith takes on the next generation as the complete edition of STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT provides us with a smorgasborg of...

Review of the complete edition of Jerry Goldsmith's score to STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT.

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The man who scored Jack Sparrow and Henry Kelly takes on the world of motor racing, but is his music suitable for Formula 1 or NASCAR? Even with his...

Review of Hans Zimmer's score to RUSH.

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So apparently bears can write excellent film music. Who knew? CAPRICA - Bear McCreary (La-La Land) Bear McCreary gets around a lot. Not in a man-whori...

Review round-up looking at Bear McCreary's CAPRICA and EUROPA REPORT, Joseph Bishara's THE CONJURING, and John Debney's JOBS.

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You may not be immediately familiar with the name Matthew Margeson, but you probably know a couple of movies that he's worked on. Oh, say, THE DARK K...

Interview with Matthew Margeson, composer of KICK-ASS 2.

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Our regular rant on the film scoring world, today featuring James Horner's birthday, a Hans Zimmer award, and free music! Well, it's a dreary morning...

Second edition of SOUNDTREKKING.

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Skateboarders! Bodybuilders! Hangovers! Lanterns! And more... WAITING FOR LIGHTNING - Nathan Furst (Lakeshore Records) Nathan Furst's score for the do...

Review round-up of WAITING FOR LIGHTNING, CONTINUUM, SPECTACULAR NOW, GREEN LANTERN ANIMATED VOL. 2, PAIN & GAIN, WHITE HOUSE DOWN and THE HANGOVER TRILOGY.

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This week's dose of soundtrack recordings on sale... NEW THIS WEEK A double dose of angry and violent superheroes and supervillains this week, as well...

Out this week for August 12th.

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Once again, it's the year of the superhero. But after several films featuring Marvel* and DC's finest, it's time for a different kind of masked aveng...

Soundtrack review of Henry Jackman and Matthew Margeson's score to KICK-ASS 2.

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It's back! In a different form. Just in time for the weekend, it's the Soundtrek Mixtape! As you may have read earlier in the week, our usual regular...

First edition of our new mixtape series.

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Well, we've had a bit of a split. Oh, nothing serious - it's just that the new releases and the playlist never really got on together. You know how th...

First edition of new column.

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As the world stumbles into the digital age vinyl records are growing ever popular, and where there's a niche format on the up, soundtracks usually ar...

Interview with Redg Weeks of Invada Records.

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John Landis' beloved 1981 horror has a dedicated fanbase to be sure, and much of the film's success comes from the idiosyncratic soundtrack, a mix of...

Article on the music of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.

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A timely catch-up of some of the bigger releases we’ve missed this year… Time is the bane of all reviewers, not least this one. Two young children and...

Big roundup of reviews to scores for MANIAC, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW, IRON MAN 3, LINCOLN, OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL.

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Mutation. It's something that has happened since life began, and will undoubtedly happen again. This would sound much better if Patrick Stewart were...

Article on the music of the X-MEN films.

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How do you follow up something like DRIVE? It must be a tricky prospect, following up a wildly popular film that shot Ryan Gosling to stardom and had...

Soundtrack review for Cliff Martinez's score to ONLY GOD FORGIVES.