After recruiting Sufjan Stevens for Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino continues his streak of attracting trailblazing musical talent for his projects with Suspiria. For his reimagining of the Dario Argento film, none other than Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke will provide the score, his first ever. Set to be released the same day as the film, on October 26, is the full soundtrack, and now the first listen has arrived.
“There’s a way of repeating in music that can hypnotize. I kept thinking to myself that it’s a form of making spells,” Yorke told THR. “So when I was working in my studio I was making spells. I know it sounds really stupid, but that’s how I was thinking about it. It was a sort of freedom I’ve not had before. I’ve not worked in the format of song arrangement. I’m just exploring.”
Rory O’Connor said in his Venice review of the film, “Guadagnino has almost managed to pull off the impossible with this new Suspiria, a lavish, kitsch-porn piece of not particularly scary macabre horror that bears the director’s signature aesthetic stamp while staying loyal to the original in many ways.”
Check out the first single Suspirium below (featuring animation by Ruff Mercy) along with the double LP tracklist, cover art, and a new clip.
A1 –
A Storm That Took Everything
The Hooks
Suspirium
Belongings Thrown In A River
Has Ended
Klemperer Walks
Open Again
A2 –
Sabbath Incantation
The Inevitable Pull
Olga’s Destruction (Volk tape)
The Conjuring of Anke
A Light Green
Unmade
The Jumps
B1 –
Volk
The Universe is Indifferent
The Balance of Things
A Soft Hand Across Your Face
Suspirium Finale
B2 –
A Choir of One
Synthesizer Speaks
The Room of Compartments
An Audition
Voiceless Terror
The Epilogue
In other news featuring Radiohead members becoming some of our greatest living film composers, if you’re New York City next month, Jonny Greenwood’s score for There Will Be Blood will be performed live at a screening at Lincoln Center. Dive into his latest Paul Thomas Anderson collaboration, Phantom Thread, below with a new video essay:
Lastly, we’re pleased to premiere a pair of alternate posters for Suspiria created by Midnight Marauder & Tony Stella. Check out both below, with the first from Midnight Marauder and the second a collaboration between the two artists.
