Copenhagen dreams

"The Icelandic-born, Copenhagen-based composer created this soundtrack for Max Kestner's Cophenhagen Dreams, an impressionistic documentary study of that Danish city ... The film in question, originally released a couple of years ago by director Max Kestner, is the kind of documentary that a hundred years of motion pictures, television, and more has made into a kind of subtle genre, the documentary study of a city that relies on impression, editing, and visual and sonic sense presented to a viewer ... As such the soundtrack to Copenhagen Dreams functions predominantly in its own right as impressionistic and not necessarily cohesive, a series of quick sketches that impress on the mind only in quick bursts ... Straightforward piano-only songs such as "She Loves to Ride the Port Ferry When It Rains" intertwine with thicker arrangements and unsettled elements, perhaps its own reflection of a centuries-old city looking into an unknowable future ... The last piece "They Imagine the City Growing Out Into the Ocean", one of several tracks featuring múm's Hildur Guðnadóttir on vocals, has both a quality of benediction in its slow string beauty and a suggestion of a future, however melancholic. If that is to be considered "typically" Jóhannsson at this point, it is no less powerful, or enjoyable, for that reason".

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