Listen To Some Of Howard Shore And Metric’s Score For ‘Cosmopolis’
One of the pleasures of any newDavid Cronenbergfilm is the new work fromHoward Shorethat traditionally accompanies it. Cronenberg and Shore have worked together on almost every one of the director’s features sinceThe Broodin 1979. (Michael Kamen did the score forThe Dead Zonein 1983.) And while not every Cronenberg/Shore collaboration has been gold, they have produced some excellent work together. The scores forThe FlyandVideodromeare memorable and effective; Shore used Ornette Colman to great effect forNaked Lunch. A few years later he produced one of my favorite scores, period: the brittle, uneasy guitar-based music forCrash.
ForCosmopolis, the fourteenth feature collaboration between Cronenberg and Shore, the composer enlisted Canadian bandMetricto perform the music for the film, and to co-write three tracks. (Metric also contributed to theScott Pilgrim vs the Worldsoundtrack.) Samples of the entire score are now available, and we’ve got info on the score below.
Sadly, the samples are not embeddable; you’ll have to head toHowe Records(viathe Playlist) for the samples of the eleven songs on the official soundtrack release.
Here’s what Howe has to say about the score as a whole:
The soundtrack for Cosmopolis reunites composer Howard Shore and the band METRIC for another cinematic collaboration. While writing the score for David Cronenberg’s film adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis, Shore conceived of a particular live sound to achieve his vision and invited METRIC to perform the score and co-write three songs. The music was recorded in November 2011 at the band’s own Giant Studios in Toronto, produced by Howard Shore and METRIC guitarist Jimmy Shaw, and mixed by John O’Mahony at Liberty Studios in Toronto and Electric Lady Studios in NYC. The result is an atmospheric, urban soundscape of analog synths and layered guitars featuring the hypnotic vocals of METRIC lead singer Emily Haines. The Cosmopolis soundtrack also features “Mecca” by Somali Singer/Rapper K’NAAN with lyrics by the artist and Don DeLillo.
