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Jim O'Rourke
- Record Label: Drag City
- Release Date: Jul 7, 2023
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- Summary: The latest soundtrack from Jim O'Rourke was for Kyle Armstrong's 2021 film Hands That Bind.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Soundtracks, Stage & Screen, Avant-Garde Music
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UncutAug 3, 2023It's a calming, beatific experience. [Aug 2023, p.34]
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MojoAug 3, 2023It's absorbing stuff, even shorn of the images. [Aug 2023, p.87]
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Aug 3, 2023Jim O’Rourke’s soundtrack is perfectly calibrated to this unforgiving space squashed between parched fields and blown-out sky. His palette—detuned piano, watery vibraphone, and a muted, amorphous shimmer that might be harmonium or synthesizer—matches the film’s dusty tones of beige and pewter and mobile-home brown.
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Aug 3, 2023As with so many similarly powerful film scores, this one offers an enveloping listening experience that doesn't rely on the images it accompanies.