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- Record Label: Erased Tapes Records
- Release Date: Feb 28, 2012
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- Summary: The Icelandic composer wrote the soundtrack to the 2011 film written by Sam Levinson.
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- Record Label: Erased Tapes Records
- Genre(s): Soundtracks, Stage & Screen
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Feb 27, 2012For the most part he minimally relies on keys and strings, but the effect creates a much more powerful setting and as a result, it's difficult not to be dragged into it.
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Feb 27, 2012It makes for interesting listening, sitting sonically as it does between Frahm's minimalism and the rich swathes of A Winged Victory For The Sullen.
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Feb 27, 2012Another Happy Day creeps you out, sucks you in and gracefully spits you back again, with a renewed sense of comfortable discontent.
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Feb 27, 2012Arnalds' score ultimately isn't as satisfying [Trent Reznor's The Social Network or Cliff Martinez's on Drive], especially in the front half where he's excessively patient and slow to build momentum.
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MojoJul 18, 2012The result is a low-key mist of strings, piano, percussion and electronics. [Jun 2012, p.87]
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Feb 3, 2014As a soundtrack, it works. Moody music fills the background, and in that respect it is largely a success. Yet as a standalone listen, the record is a weak and almost slap-dash display, with Arnalds feeling regrettably uninspired.
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