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Mandy Review: Johann Johannsson-Scored Horror Film Opens In UK Cinemas October 12! | Empire Online

How to describe Mandy? Imagine a live-action version of the cover art from a band that sang about dragons, Vikings and both Sodom and Gomorrah, set to a score from the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, that’s half the hardest basslines you’ll find outside a Berlin basement club and half atmospherics that would give Beelzebub himself the willies. – Andrew Lowry, Empire Online

Ahead of the UK theatrical release, critics reviews continue to roll in for Mandy, Directed by Panos Cosmatos!  Empire Magazine remarks on the chilling score by the late Johann Johannsson to what critics are already calling a new cult classic.  If you haven’t yet seen the film, this review is pretty spoiler free.  If you’re not in the UK, you can catch Mandy in select theaters now and on Digital VOD (rent it on iTunes).  The soundtrack released by Lakeshore and Invada Records is available now on Digital and Vinyl formats!

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen/Buy]

RLJE Films presents MANDY, in UK Cinemas on October 12!

 

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Johann Johannsson : The Music Of ‘Mandy’ | Variety

Johann Johannsson | Photo credit: Jonatan Gretarsson

Partly electronic, partly live players, it’s also heavily edited and processed for a dark, massive, industrial-metal sound that matches the grim, violent, sometimes insane milieu of the film. – Jon Burlingame, Variety

On the eve of the Mandy theatrical and soundtrack release, Variety’s Jon Burlingame takes a look at the late composer Johann Johannsson, whose score was completed shortly before his passing earlier this year.  The film’s director Panos Cosmatos, his friend and manager Tim Husom and others remark on the journey and collaborations that brought the highly-anticipated score to fruition, including the newly-formed Johann Johannsson Foundation, which aims to “connect and support music students to musicians.”  Read the full story at Variety.

Album Out Now!: [iTunes]

 

 

MANDY: KCRW Selects Johann Johannsson’s ‘Children of the New Dawn’ Single For ‘TODAY’S TOP TUNE’ (Listen)!

KCRW selects “Children of the New Dawn” by Johann Johannsson as TODAY’S TOP TUNE — now live!  “Children of the New Dawn” was released ahead of the full album, out Friday, September 14 via Lakeshore and Invada Records!  See the full Mandy album feature now at KCRW online.  Be sure you’re subscribed to Film Music Daily and stay tuned for more Mandy soundtrack news!

The Mandy score was co-produced by Jóhann and Randall Dunn. Pepijn Caudron and Yair Glotman are also co-producers on the album.  

Single Out Now: [Download/Listen]

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RLJE Films presents MANDY, in theaters, VOD and Digital on September 14.