Berberian Sound Studio
by Broadcast
  • Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: Jan 8, 2013
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Exclaim
    Feb 5, 2013
    60
    Berberian Sound Studio is far from an essential album, but it's definitely a welcome surprise addition for fans of Broadcast, the movie itself or fans of Italian horror soundtrack artists such as Goblin.
  2. NOW Magazine
    Jan 17, 2013
    60
    The best songs are the few featuring Keenan's lovely voice, like Teresa, Lark Of Ascension, which serves as a sad reminder of the talent we lost.
  3. Q Magazine
    Jan 24, 2013
    60
    It's best experienced with the lights out, although as with most film music, it loses some frisson separated from Strickland's lurid images. [Feb 2013, p.102]
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  5. The Independent (UK)
    Jan 4, 2013
    60
    It's presented as 39 miniature sonic studies in the vein of European "library music" fragments, interspersed with dialogue clips from the movie and sound effects to evoke the protagonist's deteriorating mindset.
  6. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Jan 14, 2013
    60
    As a soundtrack, sure; as a record, one for the completist.
  7. The Wire
    Jan 8, 2013
    50
    Here, the 70s simulations, artful enough in their own way, are presented straight. The result, sadly, doesn't evoke 70s Italian Horror; it merely makes one think of already-over-familiar period and genre signifiers. [Jan 2013, p.62]
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