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Critics Love Rob Simonsen’s Age Of Adaline Score!

The Reviews Are In: Rob Simonsen’s Score Is A Hit

 

“So if Brian Tyler is the new Jerry Goldsmith and Michael Giacchino is the heir of John Williams, can I dream about Rob Simonsen someday taking over the emotional scepter form James Newton Howard? 10 years from now we will be regarding this composition as a classic. Do yourselves a favor and rush to get it.” –Soundtrack Dreams

 

The Age Of Adaline (Original Motion Picture Score) featuring score by Rob Simonsen is out now via Lakeshore Records!  The album also features the end title song, “Start Again” by Rob Simonsen and Faux Fix (Katie Chastain and Nathan Johnson) and featuring vocals by Elena Tonra.  Find out what else critics are saying about the album and preview the score below.  The Age Of Adaline is now playing in theaters nationwide (find a theater)!

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Debug: Timothy Williams’ ‘Angrily Energized’ Score Is Featured By Critic Daniel Schweiger (Film Music Magazine)

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Timothy Williams Turns His Orchestral Score On Its Head For Director David Hewlett’s ‘Debug’ Movie

 

For as sparkling clean as Debug’s impressive sets are, Williams gives a nasty, rock and roll grunginess to the score that conveys a punk team spirit facing off against a fiendish circuitry man, also conveying a spirit of sacrifice in his more emotional moments of camaraderie that use unexpectedly poetic piano, voice and melancholy strings to contrast with the more angrily energized music at hand. -Daniel Schweiger, Film Music Magazine

 

Debug (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) featuring score by Timothy Williams is available now via Lakeshore Records.  “I knew that the score was going to be primarily electronic, but I loved the idea of using an orchestra for its organic quality, and then mutilating the pristine recordings, through reversing, pitch shifting, filtering, unusual delays and falling reverbs.”  Watch the album preview below, which include stills from Debug, directed by David Hewlett, available now on DVD (UK).

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Watch ‘A Million Stars’ Lyric Video From The D Train – Jack Black Comedy Opens In Theaters 5/8!

Andy McCluskey (OMD), Rob Kroehler (Ladylike), Jack Antonoff (fun.) And Andrew Dost (fun.) Make A Formidable Synthpop Group For ‘The D Train’

 

Filled with nuggets of drippy ’80s-inspired synth and plenty of mystery, the soundtrack seems to be just the beginning of Dost’s career in composing. –Music Times

 

 

Available now digitally via Lakeshore Records is The D Train (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), featuring a synth-driven score by Andrew Dost of the GRAMMY®-winning band, fun., and music by various artists curated by Randall Poster, the music supervisor on Academy Award®-winning films Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel!  Watch the new lyric video for “A Million Stars,” the end title song from The D Train (see video below).  Starring Jack Black (Bernie, Nacho Libre) and James Marsden (Unfinished Business, X-Men: Days of Future Past), The D Train makes its theatrical premiere on May 8!

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EXCLUSIVE! Preview Christophe Beck’s Score For ‘Good Kill’ (Soundtrack.net), Film Opens 5/15

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Grammy® Nominee Christophe Beck Scores The Emotional Turmoil Of A Drone Pilot Caught Between Two Desert Landscapes

 

Lakeshore Records will release Good Kill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) digitally on May 12.  The album features score by GRAMMY® nominee Christophe Beck (Frozen, Let’s Be Cops, Runner Runner).  Voltage Pictures presents Good Kill in theaters on May 15.  The films stars Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke (Boyhood), Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek: Into Darkness), Zoe Kravitz (Divergent), Jake Abel (I Am Number Four) and January Jones (X-Men: First Class).  See the link below for an exclusive preview of the score album plus more soundtrack details.

Good Kill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Music by Christophe Beck

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The D Train: Synth-Driven Score By Andrew Dost Available Now, ‘A Million Stars’ Single Lyric Video Premieres! (PopMatters), Reunite With Friends In Theaters On 5/8!

Andrew Dost’s Score Captures The Themes Of Turmoil, Angst And Nostalgia In ‘The D Train’

 

Andy McCluskey (OMD), Rob Kroehler (Ladylike), Jack Antonoff (fun.) and Andrew Dost (fun.) have formed a formidable pop collective for “A Million Stars”, a tune drenched in ‘80s sheen, which features on the soundtrack to the Jack Black and James Marsden comedy The D Train. McCluskey, Antonoff, and Dost harmonize together splendidly, no doubt due in part to the latter two’s proclivity for harmonized vocals in the music of fun. Above all else, though, it’s the stylistics of OMD that shine through most resoundingly on “A Million Stars”; both the chorus and the synths used throughout the tune are highly reminiscent of OMD’s most recent LP, 2013’s English Electric (which we here at PopMatters are big fans of). –PopMatters

 

 

Lakeshore Records is very pleased to release The D Train (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) featuring original score by Andrew Dost (of fun.) and the end title song, “A Million Stars” featuring vocals by Andy McCluskey of iconic English band, OMD.  Watch the official Lyric Video for “A Million Stars” — now premiering on PopMatters!  The The D Train album also features 1980s hits by various artists including Candlelight, Foreigner, INXS, OMD and more!  See full soundtrack details below.  The D Train starring Jack Black and James Marsden opens in select theaters on Friday, May 8!

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