Sicario : original motion picture soundtrack

"Last year, Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson earned an Oscar nomination for his lush, classically inspired music for the Stephen Hawking biopic, "The Theory of Everything" - a precise, lyrical score driven by strings and piano, and accented by harp, woodwinds and the fairy-tale chimes of a music box. It is by turns as delicate as a glass figurine and as rich as a Renaissance tapestry. But with "Sicario," Denis Villeneuve's drug cartel thriller that opens Sept. 18 in limited release, Johannsson goes in the opposite direction, aiming more for sound design than melody. It's an ominous, percussive work that reflects the grisly reality of its subject matter, which involves a rogue U.S. government task force intent on disrupting the Mexican drug trade with its own brand of shock and awe".

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