Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Road (OST)

Written for the film based on the book by Cormac McCarthy, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis continue their partnership which has spawned music for The Bad Seeds and Grinderman. This somber score sees them providing sparse arrangements, using mainly strings and piano to create bleak soundscapes with an eerie atmosphere. Sound loops, percussion, snatches of feedback and other elements of electronic noise are brought in and out of tracks to unsettle and disturb. This is one of the best soundtracks I have heard for a while.

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Marco Beltrami & Mastodon - Jonah Hex

Excellent comic > Forgettable film > Excellent soundtrack. That's my summary of Jonah Hex as a franchise.

My summary of Jonah Hex as a six-track soundtrack EP brought to us by Italian composer Marco Beltrami and Mastodon is thus; it is Mastodon's best work since Leviathan. I haven't heard the new album yet but I don't expect it to be as good as this. Seriously download this, you don't need to have seen the film to enjoy it. In fact, you probably just shouldn't see the film.

What sort of subtitle is "Revenge Gets Ugly EP" anyway? Since when was the concept of vengeance a pretty and flowery notion?