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June 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Mark Isham & Isabella Summers: Little Fires Everywhere [Original Soundtrack]
Mark Isham & Isabella Summers Little Fires Everywhere [Original Soundtrack] Hollywood Records, Inc. Little Fires Everywhere was a fantastic TV mini-series; loved it. Great writing, acting, the works – brilliant use of score to heighten the dramatic tension in scenes and a nice little idea of playing with covers, basically doing them all in a […]Archive
June 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 112
V/A, Evita [Cast Recording] (1976) It’s not a blanket rule – but fuck I hate musicals. That said, I give it a chance every few years. I try. I wonder what I have maybe missed. There are some great musicals I love, there’s some musical theatre I can dig – at least in the moment, […]Archive
April 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Daniel Lopatin: Uncut Gems – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Daniel Lopatin Uncut Gems – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Warp Records A strange adrenalin pushes the movie Uncut Gems – but then its anti-hero Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is compelled by a very strange adrenalin: For him it’s less about winning than it is not completely losing. In his gambler’s mind if he doesn’t lose […]Archive
March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Susanne Sundfør: Self Portrait Original Soundtrack [EP]
Susanne Sundfør Self Portrait Original Soundtrack [EP] Bella Union Susanne Sundfør’s latest release is the soundtrack to a documentary film about the anorexic photographer Lene Marie Fossen. The film sounds compelling, the movie’s trim album score will take you part of the way there. Over simple, evocative piano pieces – some with slight choral undertones […]Archive
March 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
William Tyler: Music From First Cow
William Tyler Music From First Cow [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Merge Records I’m excited to hear this – firstly because it’s a new offering from William Tyler. And I’ve followed him across EPs and albums and will listen to anything that features him. Secondly it’s a movie soundtrack and he’s been making his own sonic […]Archive
February 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Brad Mehldau: Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film)
Brad Mehldau Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film) Same Player Sign me up for the film straight away: A French translation of the John Fante novella (My Dog Stupid from the posthumous collection West of Rome in which a middle-aged couple with marriage troubles have a big ‘Stupid’ dog come between them – written, […]Archive
January 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Tierney Sutton Band: Screenplay
The Tierney Sutton Band Screenplay BFM Jazz Formed around the delicate, classy vocals of the lead singer The Tierney Sutton Band features some great instrumentalists to help shape the sound – bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, drummer/percussionist Ray Brinker and pianist Christian Jacob. They’ve made some great albums and are not opposed to a […]Archive
January 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Thomas Newman: 1917 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Thomas Newman 1917 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Sony Classical Thomas Newman long ago proved himself as one of the safest sets of hands in the film-scoring trade. Need your film scored? Need a bloody good job? Well, you’d call any of the Newmans of course, it’s the family trade but Thomas, from the early 2000s, […]Archive
January 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 34 – 2020 – 1st Edition
It’s a new year – welcome, belatedly to 2020. You’ve arrived already of course, but here now is the first edition of the staggeringly inconsistent Five Songs For Friday for the new year. No theme. Just songs that are on my mind at the start of this year. Or on my turntable. Or in my […]Archive
December 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Hildur Guðnadóttir: Chernobyl [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Hildur Guðnadóttir Chernobyl [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Deutsche Grammophon One of my favourite albums of the year, and my favourite film score, was Hildur Guðnadóttir’s music for the film Joker. (I didn’t exactly like the film). But the must was sublime, both in the movie-watching experience and removed from it. Ahead of that I had […]Archive
December 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman