If you’re one of those super keener Radiohead fans, you’ll be happy to know that eight days before it’s released in theaters, you’ll be able to buy Jonny Greenwood’s score to Paul Thomas Anderson’s new oil baron film, “There Will Be Blood” on December 18 via Nonesuch Records (that label that fired that guy that Pitchfork were inclined to write a whole story about ; for those without arithmetic skills, TWBB hits theaters Dec 26).
While we haven’t heard the soundtrack or seen the movie yet, we’ve all seen the trailer and the music in the film sounds like it’s going to be as chilling and ominous as the film appears to be.
Variety said Greenwood’s orchestral arrangements are “essential” to the film’s success and called his score “haunting.” There’s this insistent string motif that sounds like the buzzing of an insect inside one’s head, a sound that grows louder and more unavoidably distressing whenever soulless events are about to occur,” they wrote.
If we rehash what TWBB is one more time we’ll snap, so here’s what we said in our Fall Preview:
After a long-awaited five year absence, Paul Thomas Anderson takes a decidedly unhip left turn with the 1920’s oil drama “There Will Be Blood.” Based on the Upton Sinclair Novel, “Oil!,” PTA’s return features Daniel Day-Lewis as a ravenous and misanthropic oil baron who gives not a flying fuck about all humanity, save for his young son. Paul Dano co-stars as a young priest (the only other “name” actor) trying to dispel Day Lewis’ greedy scrooge from ruining their California town. Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood scores, but expect bleak drama and file under: not for fans who count, “Punch Drunk Love,” “Eternal Sunshine” and “I Heart Huckabees” as their favorite films.
There Will Be Blood Soundtrack tracklist
01. Open Spaces (4:00)
02. Future Markets (2:44)
03. Prospectors Arrive (4:40)
04. Eat Him By His Own Light (3:36)
05. Henry Plainview (4:14)
06. There Will Be Blood (2:08)
07. Oil (3:04)
08. Proven Lands (4:49)
09. HW / Hope of New Fields (2:29)
10. Stranded the Line (2:20)
11. Prospectors Quartet (2:56)
(*Original tracklist had “10. Smear (9:58)” and no 11th track)
Watch: Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke and & Nazareth Orchestra – “Arpeggi”
