Clint Mansell | SILCD1501 | 738572150129 | CD | Soundtrack
Golden Globe and Grammy nominated composer Clint Mansell’s brooding, edgy and beautifully unsettled orchestral score to Ben Wheatley’s eagerly awaited film adaptation of J.G Ballard’s High-Rise.
Described by Hollywood Reporter as “a lustrous retro-classical score bursting with ironic good cheer”, Clint Mansell’s music has a meaty, steadfast presence throughout the visual spectacular of the savage societal breakdown.
Former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman turned soundtrack composer, Clint Mansell is best known for his work with long time collaborator Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Fountain, Noah). He also scored Duncan Jones’ Directorial debut Moon, and has lent to his talent to films as diverse as Filth, Faster, and Last Night.
Starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, High-Rise is a visionary tale of human society slipping into extreme violence. The once-peaceful residents of a desirable apartment block quickly spiral into a world ruled by primal urges in which elevators become vicious battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into brutal raids on “enemy” floors.
The film received its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015, its European premiere at the 63rd San Sebastián Film Festival and is released in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2016 through StudioCanal.
TRACKLISTING
- Clint Mansell – Critical Mass
- Clint Mansell – Silent Corridors
- Clint Mansell – The World Beyond the High-Rise
- Clint Mansell – The Vertical City
- Clint Mansell – The Circle of Women
- Clint Mansell – “Built, Not for Man, But for Man’s Absence”
- Clint Mansell – Danger in the Streets of the Sky
- Clint Mansell – “Somehow the High-Rise Played into the Hands of the Most Petty Impulses”
- Clint Mansell – Cine-Camera Cinema
- Clint Mansell – A Royal Flying School
- Clint Mansell – The Evening’s Entertainment
- Clint Mansell – Blood Garden