Zero Dark Thirty [OST] (CD)


Alexandre Desplat

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Amoeba Review

01/07/2013

Composer Alexandre Desplat’s soundtrack for Zero Dark Thirty will hopefully get the same kind of accolades its accompanying film has received. Desplat, who also soundtracked the Oscar-winning The King’s Speech and this year’s similarly well-received Argo, among many others, dials down the volume while pushing the intensity. There’s a striking subtlety and variety here, in the jazz-inflected “Drive to Embassy,” which gives way to the spare, industrial “Bombings,” leading into the synthesized Eastern tonalities of “Ammar.” “Seals Take Off” is terrifically tense, its strings and horn blasts breathing air into a claustrophobic score. A dark bassline moves “Preparation for Attack” into epic territory, while “Balawi” is elegiac, with a beautiful, mournful vocal. The blend of real and synthesized sounds, in addition to the foreboding, contemplative quality to the Desplat’s score, serve as an appropriate backdrop to the film, about the 10-year search for Osama Bin Laden, as well as a stunning piece of music in its own right.

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Track Listing



Disc 1 Titles
Artist
Length
1.
Flight To Compound 		Alexandre Desplat 05:07
2.
Drive To Embassy 		Alexandre Desplat 01:44
3.
Bombings 		Alexandre Desplat 02:44
4.
Ammar 		Alexandre Desplat 04:06
5.
Monkeys 		Alexandre Desplat 02:59
6.
Northern Territories 		Alexandre Desplat 03:46
7.
Seals Take Off 		Alexandre Desplat 02:34
8.
21 Days 		Alexandre Desplat 02:04
9.
Preparation For Attack 		Alexandre Desplat 01:45
10.
Balawi 		Alexandre Desplat 03:15
11.
Dead End 		Alexandre Desplat 03:26
12.
Maya On Plane 		Alexandre Desplat 03:59
13.
Area 51 		Alexandre Desplat 01:42
14.
Tracking Calls 		Alexandre Desplat 03:46
15.
Picket Lines 		Alexandre Desplat 03:03
16.
Towers 		Alexandre Desplat 02:02
17.
Chopper 		Alexandre Desplat 01:48
18.
Back To Base 		Alexandre Desplat 02:41

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