Collaborative Duo's Chilling Score on Vinyl LP!
Wind River is the 2017 directorial debut by critically acclaimed screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Hell or High Water). In the chilling thriller, a rookie FBI agent teams with a Wyoming town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation. Starring Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and Jon Bernthal, the original score was composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (Lawless, Hell or High Water, The Road, The Assassination of Jesse James By …).
In a press release Cave and Ellis explained that they found inspiration for their score in the film's stark and remote setting: "The soundtrack to the beautiful Wind River was first and foremost the incessant wind or the grieving silence of the snow. Amid those elemental forces, we made a kind of ghost score where voices whisper and choirs rise up and die away and electronics throb and pulse."
Just like on Skeleton Tree, this melancholia is not used gratuitously, bathed in for its own sake; Cave and Ellis' arrangements, sparse and spacious, move between moods with impressive tonal agility. Every stroke is expertly measured, every mantra passionately intoned.
some of the most exciting music I have heard in cinema in recent time
Wind River is dark and beautiful, a flawless musical story
Features
- 180g Audiophile Black Vinyl
- Alternate Album Artwork
- Printed Insert with Album Credits
Selections
Side A:
- Snow Wolf
- Zed
- Tell Me What That Is
- First Journey
- First Body
- Second Journey
- Breakdown
- Hunter
- Meth House
- Third Journey
Side B:
- Corey's Story
- Three Seasons in Wyoming
- Cabin
- Shoot Out
- Snow Flight
- Memory Time
- Survive or Surrender
- Wind River
