Beautiful, evocative, darkly visceral and elegiac, thi folk-based soundtrack by the Sheffield singer-singer and composer captures the deeply unromantic and violent new feature film depicting Hood as a criminal non-hero from writer/director Michael Sarnoski and starring Hugh Jackman, very much stands on its own as album. Like his separate releases, the April single The Hungry Child, and last year’s album Wasteland, Ghedi’s tracks, some of which on this soundtrack have previously been released, are vividly shadowy and fabulously atmospheric accompaniment to the film, from opener Farm Attack onwards, but it is the song and his distinctive voice that really stand out, particularly Twa Corbies, with droning strings and clattering march percussion, and the keyboard, violin and trumpet combination of Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters. Then there is the gorgeous acoustic guitar and chamber string drone and elegiac shivering riffs of an older track What Will Become of England, a timelessly powerful number that particularly inspired the director’s invitation to Ghedi to write the entire soundtrack: “What will become of England if things go on this way / There's many a thousand working men, that's starving day by day / He cannot find employment, for bread his children cry / And hundreds of his children now lay in their grave.” There’s a mix of beauty and terrible violence evoked throughout many other parts, including the chillingly slashing evocations of sliding violin and deep drumming on the epic instrumental Godfather Fight, the glorious gradual unfurling strings of Walking Again, the delicate hovering of harp and woodwind of I Owe This Life To You, and the final and inevitable slow, moving Robin’s Death. While Jackman, alongside Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett and Noah Jupe, no doubt all have their moments Ghedi’s soundtrack has a vital presence in the film and a life outside of it too. Out on A24 Music.
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