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Artist: Jonny Greenwood | Label: Nonesuch |Format: LP | Genre: Soundtrack | Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed
Jonny Greenwood’swonderful soundtrack to the motion picture
There Will Be Blood.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s fifth film There Will Be Blood is too monumentaland odd to not provoke sharply divided opinions but all reviews, from ravesto revulsion, agree on two points: Daniel Day Lewis’ performance as oilmanDaniel Plainview is astonishing, and Jonny Greenwood’s score is extraordinary.Lewis dominates the film, appearing in all but one scene, and Greenwood’smusic is used far more sparingly yet it’s no less indelible. From the momentthe film fades open to a spare, unrelenting Californian landscape, Greenwood’stense, coiled score mirrors the eerie emotional undercurrent to the film, pullingfeelings to the surface, often with an almost operatic sense of drama.This is grand music, but it’s also controlled, unleashing its furious clashesof dissonance with precision. Greenwood has demonstrated such mastery of moodas the guitarist within Radiohead but There Will Be Blood is superficiallyfar removed from that band’s restless experiments with electronic music.There are no electric instruments here at all — this is all orchestral music,created on instruments that were available at the film’s setting of the beginningof the 20th century, yet Greenwood doesn’t attempt to re-create turn-of the-centurymores: he writes music that taps into the rotten heart of Daniel Plainview.This is magnificently unsettling music, whether it’s used within the film orheard on its own terms — either way, it’s impossible to forget after it’s been heard.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Cues are;
Open SpacesFuture marketsProspectors ArriveEat Him By His Own LightHenry PlainviewThere Will Be BloodOilProven Lands (Intro)
Proven LandsHW/Hope Of New Fields
Stranded The Line
Prospector’s QuartetDetuned Quartet
NEW SEALED Soundtrack LP with Gatefold and deluxe artwork.
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