On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.
▰ With track titles like “a concrete corridor,” “jagged branches,” and “tungsten bulbs,” the excellent new score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, for The Gorge, could be easily mistaken for a Nine Inch Nails album. (The Gorge is the one with the woman from the chess movie and the guy from the drumming movie. The best thing about it, besides the score and it having a very small cast in a very large landscape, is that Netflix positioned it as a Valentine’s Day movie.)
▰ Lawrence English’s new album, Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds, is like an orchestra of pianos tuning up forever. Includes source material from Amby Downs, Chris Abrahams, Chuck Johnson, Claire Rousay, Dean Hurley, Jim O’Rourke, JW Paton, Madeleine Cocolas, Norman Westberg, Stephen Vitiello, and Vanessa Tomlinson.
▰ Archival Entry: Look out. Old man Weidenbaum is listening to James Newton Howard’s Michael Clayton (2007) score on repeat again.
