Original Score Music On Pink Vinyl Double LP!
2020 Grammy Award Nominee:
• Best Song Written For Visual Media: "Suspirium"
The Luca Guadagnino directed film stars Dakota Johnson & Tilda Swinton.
"However it may work in the film, on its own, Yorke's score tackles a broader range of styles and ideas than any of his previous solo work, and all of them shine. There are appropriately cinematic, minor-key passages for piano and strings; great sheets of electronic buzz; gorgeous choral miniatures with a whiff of Arvo Pärt's arctic grace; brooding, gothic Americana; and striking forays into pure electronic abstraction, the kind of thing you might have found on the German experimental label Mille Plateaux in the late 1990s. There are even a few bona fide songs. 'Suspirium,' a lilting ballad largely for piano and voice, wouldn't sound out of place on a Radiohead album, and though the lyrics gesture at some of the film's themes, they're oblique enough to stand on their own, and spooky enough to sound haunting even outside the context of the movie." - Pitchfork
"Yorke's soundtrack for the new remake of the cult-classic Seventies horror flick Suspiria isn't a film score in the way that, say, his bandmate Jonny Greenwood's avant-orchestral opuses for There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread are film scores. Nor is it a proper sequel to either of his own solo albums. Instead, he's recorded an 81-minute grab bag of witching-hour instrumentals, strange grunts 'n' gurgles, creepy monk chants and, every so often, a drop-dead gorgeous song. 'Suspirium' is a radium-glow piano ballad that would have fit in nicely on Radiohead's most recent album; the jazzy soul of 'Unmade' and the trip-hop shiver of 'Has Ended' are even more surprising, carrying welcome echoes of Yorke and co.'s brilliant Amnesiac-era B-sides. These tunes are vintage Yorke, and they make you wish he'd written more of them for Suspiria. At least until you hear the second half of this record, where the song-songs thin out in favor of even weirder electronic buzzes. 'A Choir of One' is a 14-minute descent into an icy hell; 'A Soft Hand Across Your Face' and 'Synthesizer Speaks' (both under a minute) sound a bit like Side Two of Low if Bowie was an actual vampire, which makes a fair amount of sense, given that this Suspiria takes place in '77 Berlin. It's an intriguing sideways swerve for Yorke, who's still finding new ways to unsettle and delight listeners after all these years as one of rock's greatest ever late-night spooks." - Rolling Stone
Features:
• Double LP
• Pink Vinyl
• Gatefold jacket
Selections:
Side A1:
1. A Storm That Took Everything
2. The Hooks
3. Suspirium
4. Belongings Thrown In A River
5. Has Ended
6. Klemperer Walks
7. Open Again
Side A2:
1. Sabbath Incantation
2. The Inevitable Pull
3. Olga's Destruction (Volk Tape)
4. The Conjuring Of Anke
5. A Light Green
6. Unmade
7. The Jumps
Side B1:
1. Volk
2. The Universe Is Indifferent
3. The Balance Of Things
4. A Soft Hand Across Your Face
5. Suspirium Finale
Side B2:
1. A Choir Of One
2. Synthesizer Speaks
3. The Room Of Compartments
4. An Audition
5. Voiceless Terror
6. The Epilogue
