Minos : S/T

“NARRATIVE MUSIC FOR LUNATIC PEOPLE” This is the bold-faced, all caps mission statement that hits you head on when listening to Minos’ self-titled album on their Bandcamp page. That’s not a statement to take lightly, folks. And while I wouldn’t label listeners that dig this album lunatics, I would definitely say it’s narrative music. The […]

Complex Distractions Presents : Favorite Soundtracks Of The Decade

The idea that we’ve come to the end of another decade is pretty unfathomable. Where did the 2010’s go? It was a decade of growth for me. The 1990s were a decade of figuring out how to be an adult and a partner to my wife, while the 2000s were me figuring out how to […]

Complex Distractions Presents : Favorite Soundtracks of 2019

With every great film there needs to be a great film score. The right composer put with the right filmmaker can create a sort of aural/visual magic that can prove to be transportive. A lot goes into making a film score, and taking it from good to great. Mood, themes, subtle yet engrossing, and the […]

The Night He Never Even Showed Up

I’m not sure how big of cojones one needs to possess to make a third film in a series of films about a singular masked serial killer, and have that film have nothing to do with said serial killer. Really, does anybody know the size of those things need to be? Well, if you’re a […]

Wojciech Golczewski : Tonight She Comes

Wojciech Golczewski is one of the more prolific musicians and film composers working today. He’s put his musical magic to films like We Are Still Here, Mowhawk, Beyond The Gates, Hover, and 400 Days. But outside of his excellent film work, Golczewski has established himself as one of the premier electronic/synth composers working today. His […]

Bulletproof Love

Listen up, fools. There’s a new badass in town. His name is Luke Cage. Yeah, if you’re up to no good Cage has got your number, you dig? So don’t be gettin’ up to nasty shenanigans, you hear? Don’t be grabbin’ purses or snatchin’ wallets….don’t be pushin’ that smack or knockin’ up those shops down […]

Jhubner73 Presents : Favorite Soundtracks of 2016

Besides being a pretty amazing year for new albums, there have been some amazing film and television scores that have come out in 2016. Now a couple of the soundtracks I picked up this year technically were released in 2015, but that’s merely a technicality. I bought them and loved them in 2016 so they’re […]

Neon Violence : The Music of Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’

So I was invited to take part in a post series on film soundtracks by the incredibly awesome Bruce over at Vinyl Connection. I love soundtracks and blog posts and talking about them in great detail so I said absolutely. My first post is one of my favorite soundtracks, Drive by Cliff Martinez. Read and […]

I’ll Huff And I’ll Puff…

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves isn’t a great film, but it gets close to it. It feels like a film that wants to take you down into this dark, dark hole with them, all the while sticking their elbow in your ribs while giving you a cheeky wink while they’re doing it. […]

Simon Belmont Blues

I remember it like it was yesterday(or maybe last week.) I spent a week at my uncle Mark’s house in the summer of 1987. I went straight from the last day of school to his place where we’d hang out, eat junk food, and play video games. What I didn’t know was that my older […]