Skyfall [OST] (CD)


Thomas Newman

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Amoeba Review

11/05/2012

While some argue over who has best played James Bond (really people, you didn’t want Daniel Craig?), film soundtrack fans can now argue over the latest composer to score the Bond series: Thomas Newman, who becomes the ninth person to soundtrack a Bond film. His soundtrack to “Skyfall” is appropriately tense yet spacious, recalling some of the electronic dread of Trent Reznor’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack while retaining the strings that are a hallmark of the Bond series and flirting with Eastern tones befitting of the film’s Turkish and Chinese backdrops. Newman, working with director Sam Mendes, as he did on the soundtracks for American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead and Revolutionary Road, is in fine form here, building tension over time, subtly interjecting the original James Bond theme into “Brave New World” and then taking it over with a grand crescendo marked by Eastern strings and clicking percussion. He also lets loose when the time is right, as on the riveting second half of “Quartermaster,” making the Skyfall soundtrack a dynamic listen with or without the film. It should be noted that the soundtrack unfortunately does not include Adele’s Shirley Bassey-vibing theme song “Skyfall,” though it does include an instrumental interpolation of the song by Adele and Paul Epworth, while the radio version will be released as a physical single in the U.S. the same day as the soundtrack.

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Track Listing



Disc 1 Titles
Artist
Length
1.
Grand Bazaar, Istanbul 		Thomas Newman 05:14
2.
Voluntary Retirement 		Thomas Newman 02:22
3.
New Digs 		Thomas Newman 02:32
4.
Severine 		Thomas Newman 01:18
5.
Brave New World 		Thomas Newman 01:50
6.
Shanghai Drive 		Thomas Newman 01:26
7.
Jellyfish 		Thomas Newman 03:22
8.
Silhouette 		Thomas Newman 00:56
9.
Modigliani 		Thomas Newman 01:04
10.
Day Wasted 		Thomas Newman 01:31
11.
Quartermaster 		Thomas Newman 04:58
12.
Someone Usually Dies 		Thomas Newman 02:29
13.
Komodo Dragon 		Thomas Newman 03:20
14.
The Bloody Shot 		Thomas Newman 04:46
15.
Enjoying Death 		Thomas Newman 01:13
16.
The Chimera 		Thomas Newman 01:58
17.
Close Shave 		Thomas Newman 01:32
18.
Health & Safety 		Thomas Newman 01:29
19.
Granborough Road 		Thomas Newman 02:32
20.
Tennyson 		Thomas Newman 02:14
21.
Enquiry 		Thomas Newman 02:49
22.
Breadcrumbs 		Thomas Newman 02:02
23.
Skyfall 		Thomas Newman 02:32
24.
Kill Them First 		Thomas Newman 02:22
25.
Welcome To Scotland 		Thomas Newman 01:29
26.
She's Mine 		Thomas Newman 03:53
27.
The Moors 		Thomas Newman 02:39
28.
Deep Water 		Thomas Newman 05:11
29.
Mother 		Thomas Newman 01:48
30.
Adrenaline 		Thomas Newman 02:21

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