Steve Nolan : Breathe

Irish composer and electronic musician Steve Nolan knows how to build mood and intrigue when it comes to his scores. He combines the dramatic heft with carefully built swells of strings and synth, while layering beautifully haunting piano over top. The result is often emotionally complex with just the right amount of dread to keep […]

Le Matos : Turbo Kid Original Game Soundtrack

10 years ago the French-Canadian filmmaking trio RKSS released their film, Turbo Kid. An ode to 80s post-apocalyptic B-movies, it was a fun nod to movies like Metalstorm, Steel Dawn, and Mad Max but with the light-heartedness of BMX Bandits, Explorers, and E.T. Over the top gore that was more ridiculous than offensive, and a […]

Thom Yorke : Confidenza

Thom Yorke has proven himself to be far more than just the singer of Radiohead. Not only is he the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist in one of the most important rock bands to arrive from the early 90s alternative rock scene, but Yorke has released highly regarded solo albums, collaborations with the likes of Flying Lotus and Four […]

Alone In The Woods : Help Is Not Coming

I usually have no problem finding words to describe an album. There are very few things I can go on and on about, and music is one of those few things. The music/production duo Alone In The Woods, aka Jon Dobyns and Lonn Bologna, are a band that make music I struggle to describe. Their […]

Hans Zimmer and ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

I know that the consensus is that out of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises is the worst out of the lot. Hell, I’m guilty of thinking that too after I watched it in 2012. At the time it felt kind of portly in story and scenery, and there was talk of some […]

Dungeon Electro Doom : Erik Enocksson’s ‘Apan’

I love those little moments in life that surprise you. Not like people jumping out of the closet yelling “Surprise!” at a birthday party. Surprises that the universe offers up every once in a while. Like, a bout of insomnia leads you to turn on the tube at 2am and stumble across a classic movie […]

What’s The Score? Volume IV: John Harrison’s ‘Day of the Dead’

I can say with absolute confidence that George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead is by and far my favorite horror movie. I’ll go so far as to say that it’s in my top ten favorite films of all time. It was one of those movies I saw as a wide-eyed 10-year old and it […]

What’s The Score? Volume II : Jeff Russo and ‘Legion’

I wasn’t that familiar with the Legion comic book series from Marvel when the FX series was announced. In fact I knew nothing about the character David Haller, aka Legion, but after hearing that Noah Hawley was the showrunner I was in no matter what. Hawley is the brains behind the amazing Fargo series and […]

Simon Waskow : Luz Soundtrack

Luz is one of those movies that feels like some strange fever dream. Simple enough concept begins the movie: A cab driver goes to the police station to tell them about a woman possessed by a demon that tried to attack her in her cab. They decide to put her under hypnosis in order to […]

Beautiful Noise

I think one of my absolute favorite musical discoveries of the last few years is the band Medicine. There’s something about the way they made pop songs into something righteously loud, discordant, and abrasive but never lost that magic ingredient: melody. Their first two albums, Shot Forth Self Living and The Buried Life, were both […]