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Music Monday: ‘The Great’ (Original Series Soundtrack) by Nathan Barr

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The Great’s original series soundtrack by Nathan Barr excellently encapsulates the modern, comical approach to this period drama.

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Music Monday: ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ (Original Score) by Frank Ilfman

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Gunpowder Milkshake is easily one of the most enjoyable films I watched this year, and its companion original score composed by Frank Ilfman is right alongside it as impeccable. Frank Ilfman’s original score for Gunpowder Milkshake is both action-packed and slowly-encompassing. A large part of it reminds me of one of my all-time favorites, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’s by Daniel Pemberton. There is something so brilliantly whimsical about it even in the darker tones the instruments are trying to convey. In every way, the score easily complimented the film brilliantly. Sometimes you notice the greatness of an original score after

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Music Monday: ‘Shadow and Bone’ (Original Score) by Joseph Trapanese and The Budapest Art Orchestra

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Shadow and Bone’s original score is packed with a lot dig into. I wouldn’t know where to begin even if I was told where to begin. My one complaint, I wish parts of were split up and longer because I’ve got so many parts that are my favorite bits, I want to listen to those moments on a loop until the end of time. Shadow and Bone‘s original score is a showstopper with tracks so aching and so intricately balanced with high stake emotions and slow drawn, heart tugging strings that make for a masterful compilation. Let’s break down “Royal

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Music Monday: ‘Atonement’ (Original Score) by Dario Marianelli

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Welcome to another emotionally charged period drama original score. This week we’re throwing it back to Joe Wright’s Atonement, original score by Dario Marianelli. There are a lot of mixed feelings about this movie given most of what happens, but we’ve yet to encounter someone who’s a fan of such scores say that Atonement‘s isn’t among their favorites. It’s the way that two seconds into the “The Half Killed” or “Rescue Me” or “Farewell” where I can just feel the tears coming in. But “The Half Killed”–the entirety of it is magic, but what happens 1:15 minutes in is probably

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Music Monday: ‘Sanditon’ (Original Score) by Ruth Barrett

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It’s another Monday, but we’re back with another original score that never ceases to stun us. While Sanditon as a series may have ended with the type of heartbreak that makes the show hard to revisit, it’s original score by Ruth Barrett is an addicting beauty. From the track that serves as the series’ opening theme to “Charlotte and Sidney,” “Blue Shoes,” “Esther Takes the Reins,” “Possibility of Love,” “No Regrets,” and my personal favorite, “Sidney and Charlotte Dance,” the score is a melancholy wonder that features a multitude of tracks that are hard to take off of replay. Barrett’s

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