it is a beautiful-looking show, and i think the music more than matches it. you're right about the process - the brief seems to have been to capture the essence of the programme, and for me it does exactly that.


"Mogwai had only seen a few English scripts for the drama before they started on the music. "We were aware of trying to keep it not as a typical soundtrack, more just music that doesn't necessarily do anything that has a bit of presence," guitarist John Cummings told the Quietus. That's underselling it a bit; there's no need to see the TV show (though I'd highly recommend it) to appreciate the subtlety of Mogwai's score. While the musical structures are often simple, continually recasting the motif featured in "Whisky Time"-- which plays as a coach-load of school children crashes over the edge of a winding cliff road in the first episode-- in xylophone, piano, and guitar, they push individual sounds to disquieting levels; the xylophone nursery rhyme-like tinkling that opens "Hungry Face" is so concentrated and piercing that it's quite painful to listen to, trilling at an unholy pitch, and again on "Fridge Magic", where slab-like bass shifts act as the foil to the xylophone's wandering curiosity. The way the repeated motifs falter matches how the presence of the undead in "Les Revenants" makes the electricity fizzle and splutter."

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/al...64-mogwai-les-revenants/

JUXTAPOSE - good word , that :thumb:

just seen someone else say the same thing. ripped YOU straight off. swiped it wholesale.

TUT.

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Who dat? You cheating on us with another forum?

I did think about answering that with a totally undecipherable Glaswegian insult but i won't haha!

Yep, very good powerful drama.Certainly not a waste of 2 hours.Great acting by the lead character, John.But i thought his fall from bright pupil to Non Educated Delinquent seemed very sudden once he'd met the Young Car-D gang.Though i guess the seeds were already sewn once he'd had the door slammed on him by the mum of the middle class lad he was developing a friendship with.



edit: oh and also could relate a lot to that growing up in the 1970s thing as i did myself though it was obviously never as rough round my way as Glasgow was.Though i did have my moments. I even remember slumping in front of the TV watching Robinson Crusoe as a kid just like the young John did.

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Watched it all in one go this afternoon. It were good, aye.The house was the star etc etc

i've been recording sound of the cinema, not got round to watching yet.

had a peek at peaky blinders myself, wasn't impressed, despite the (mostly) rave reviews.

John Goodman and some other shouty blokes in Coen brothers films.

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Wow did anyone see Goldfrapp doing Annabel on Later just now? That was pretty special.

Keyboard player was a bit weird though and Jools rather strangely and annoyingly kept emphasising "frapp" every time he said Goldfrapp

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Sound of cinema was great..Found out that one of my all time fav films The Birds,had no soundtrack!! I notice now of course Dont go to see many films now (bar alan partridge) but a lot of recent soundtracks on films and tv seem to have the atmospheric sigur ros type thing going on

Well can't remember so well now as it's a while since I saw it at the cinema in June. Maybe they are faster than in 28 Weeks/ Months Later. But I just recall that scene in 28 Months Later when Robbie Carlisle is legging it to get from the farmhouse
to the boat on the river . The zombies chasing him were bloody fast!

28 Months Later just seemed to have a bigger and better punch to it than World War Z