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Oct 4, 2024 · Compare your picks with Pitchfork’s own lists of the best songs and best albums of the 2020s so far, and check out all of our half-decade coverage here.
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Sep 30, 2024 · Listen to the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists. From the blissfully ignorant months before the pandemic to Brat Summer, here are the songs that moved...
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Mar 12, 2020 · From Da 5 Bloods to Bill & Ted Face The Music, via Jojo Rabbit and Mulan, Empire picks the greatest movie music moments of 2020.
Dec 17, 2020 · At times, 2020 seemed like it had made time for every obscure musical subgenre under the sun: dancehall (“ Lover’s Rock ”), noise-metal (“ Sound of Metal ”), reggaeton (“ Ema ”), and Baltimore hip-hop (“ Charm City Kings ”).
- 'Da 5 Bloods' – Terence Blanchard
- 'Sylvie’S Love' – Fabrice Lecomte
- 'Wonder Woman 1984' – Hans Zimmer
- 'Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom' – Branford Marsalis
- 'The Invisible Man' – Benjamin Wallfisch
- 'Mank' – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- 'News of The World' – James Newton Howard
- 'Minari' – Emile Mosseri
- 'Tenet' – Ludwig Goransson
If one word best summed up Spike Lee’s Netflix movie Da 5 Bloods it’d probably be “confrontational.” Right from the beginning, this film refuses to let the audience off the hook, forcing them to witness the horrors of the Vietnam War before experiencing a story of regret, trauma, and grief as told through the eyes of Vietnam vets in present day. Co...
A warm, immersive, sweeping work of classic Hollywood film composition, Fabrice Lecomte’s wondrous score to Sylvie’s Love reminds us of the sheer power evident in simple but grand orchestral arrangements. Sylvie’s Love, in its aesthetic constructions and narrative explorations, is a stirring tribute to classically romantic cinema (not just in refer...
I’m not sure there’s a cooler piece of contemporary film scoring than the 7/8 main theme of Wonder Woman. And when Hans Zimmer finally gives us this guitar-forward theme we’ve been aching for in Wonder Woman 1984, it makes that moment pop with ferocity. But Zimmer’s score ain’t just a waiting game for this recognizable theme — partially because he ...
Branford Marsalis, he of that phenomenally, prolifically talented Marsalis jazz family, gives Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom a powerful, authentic, and surprising score steeped in the traditions of blues, jazz, and popular music of the era while also wanting to push the surprisingly fast-moving film forward. Marsalis’ understanding of arrangement, of ton...
I’ve talked at length about how masterful the camerawork of The Invisible Man is. Now, if you’ll indulge me, a bit of praise for its score. Benjamin Wallfisch’s work is terrifying. It’s uneasy, queasy, both unrelentingly experimental and in constant dialogue with classic suspense scores of cinema past; playing something like Aphex Twin remixing Ber...
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have become David Fincher’s go-to film composers, but never have they written anything remotely like their score for Mank. The film – which chronicles the writing process of Citizen Kane – is crafted to look like it was made in the 1930s, and to suit Fincher’s aesthetic the score also had to sound like something writte...
James Newton Howard has been working in Hollywood churning out great and dynamic film scores for nearly four decades now, but he may have just written one of his best scores ever with News of the World. For Paul Greengrass’ epic, John Ford-inspired Western, Howard crafts a straight Western score – and it’s phenomenal. Tom Hanksplays a Civil War vet...
Composer Emile Mosseri made waves with his score for The Last Man in San Francisco, and he’s back with something even before for Lee Isaac Chung’s A24 drama Minari. The autobiographical film tells the story of a Korean-American family that leaves California for Arkansas in search of fulfilling the American Dream, only to encounter hardship after ha...
There was much handwringing when it was announced that regular Christopher Nolan collaborator Hans Zimmer wouldn’t be returning for the filmmaker’s typically twisty time travel thriller Tenet. (Zimmer was busy working on next year’s Dune.) Instead of Zimmer, Nolan would be working with Ludwig Göransson, a young composer who has been killing it with...
Dec 22, 2020 · Below we count down the most popular movie soundtracks on Tunefind during 2020. These are the movies that had viewers hunting down the songs, plus a music highlight from each film.
Dec 30, 2020 · In this entry, we’re listening to the best movie score soundtracks of 2020. I don’t need to tell you how tough 2020 has been for all of us, but one bright side is that the music coming out of...
