Search - Michael Brook :: Affliction: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Hard to imagine, but Michael Brook's score for Affliction is just as dark and probing as the Russell Banks novel this movie was based on. Using electric guitars and synthesizers, Brook (Heat, Albino Alligator) creates a haunting and dissonant soundscape that continues to unsettle even after the music is over. "Late Night Conspiracy" is a slow but methodical guitar run; "Night Flashback" hums with tension; and the frenetic drums on "Chase" and "Wade Goes Wild" raise the pulse rate. The Turtle Island String Quartet adds moody strings throughout, but this creepshow mostly relies on the otherworldly sonics of synths. All told, it's sinister stuff. Beautiful, but unrelenting. --Jason Verlinde