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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 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 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
The Vinyl Countdown # 204
Just when I think I might not need any more Willie Nelson albums I stumbled on this! A split album featuring Willie’s songs on side one and Dave Grusin’s score on side two to a film I have not seen. The Electric Horseman. Now I want to see it! Also Jane Fonda and Robert Redford […]Archive
November 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Randy Newman: Marriage Story [OST]
Randy Newman Marriage Story [Original Music From The Netflix Film] Lakeshore Records We think of Randy Newman: Film Composer as The Pixar Guy these days, but in the 1980s and, particularly, the early 1990s, he made his wage by creating the music to a diverse array of films – from big-name blockbusters starring Steve Martin […]Archive
October 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 227
V/A, Great Warner Bros. Spectaculars (1979) Okay, I’m drowning in soundtracks and soundtrack-compilations at the moment. And (mostly) loving it. The same guy that gave me this (and one of the sister volumes – love themes) also sent me a bunch of CDs; so I’m working through those too – finding some scores to films […]Archive
October 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 228
Ennio Morricone, Chi Mai (1981) Here’s the thing with being a dirty, rotten, grubby record-collector, particularly one that sets absurd life-goals like finding everything or at the least anything by Ennio Morricone – you are gonna go into a lot of junk-stores and leave with nothing but a lingering trace of your own shame-spiral. You […]Archive
October 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman