| All Music Guide |
Perfect…Hallucinatory and
evocative…Full of quicksilver changes in
mood and sound…Strands of post-rock, electronica,
jazz, and vintage rock are woven and recombined
throughout the album |
| Cinescape |
Fascinating…Dazzling…Fresh…and
Very Listenable
OR
Fascinating,…Reynolds grabs for literally
every musical evocation, style, semblance,
and idiom within arms reach (and Reynolds
apparently has very long arms) and concocts
a compelling mixture that dazzles the ears
with its sonic extremism while also intriguing
the mind with its constantly shifting variations,
textures, and colorations…The result is
a very fresh and continuously interesting
listening experience…akin to a long progressive
modern symphony freely embracing territories
of rock, chamber music, electronica, jazz-noir,
and much more…A quite attention-grabbing
and unusual film score which Lakesore has
nicely put into a provocative and very listenable
CD. |
| SciFi.com |
A brilliantly realized album…Beguiling
and immersive, the score for the film version
of one of Phil Dick's most twisted paranoid
drug fantasies is a trip in itself. The album
is richly layered, with interesting technical
tricks, sly humor and some genuinely disturbing
passages. It alternates from minimalist to
busy and, as they say, repays multiple listenings.
Each cue is a sort of mini-soundtrack in itself,
running a musical gamut from garage-band rock
to "shouting" sax jazz to Hollywood-like
string passages. I can't remember when I've
had so much fun listening to a soundtrack.
Go buy the damn disc right now. |
| IGN.com |
Nothing short of the perfect…Reynolds'
deft mixing of acousticality and effects laden
tricknology has created a score that adheres
to the film in an airtight manner that seldom
occurs these days. The score elevates the
feelings of paranoia and disorientation that
permeate the very center of the film and transfer
these emotions to the audience. The end result
is that Reynolds, a musician seemingly far
removed from the standards and practices of
Hollywood composition, has crafted one of
the most beguiling and immersive scores of
the year. |
| Director Richard Linklater |
I had been a fan of Graham's
for a long time and felt he would be the right
guy for A Scanner Darkly. He's the perfect
combination of daring and experimental, and
still able to deliver the emotional goods. |
| SciFi2k.com |
Incredible…Kick Ass Weird |
| Amplifier Magazine |
Augmenting the tension of the
story is Graham Reynolds’ dark and affecting
accompanying soundtrack. Employing everything
from upright bass to violins, cellos, oboes,
saxophones and well-placed pedal steel, Reynolds’
compositions are a thoughtful blend of spare
strings and melancholic chamber pieces, which
veer from moving to ominous throughout the
soundtrack. From the lonely country of “Strawberry
Pie” to the wobbly loops of “Sex, Beer and
Pills” to the underwater grind of “Are You
Experiencing Any Difficulties?” A Scanner
Darkly is a rich score that doesn’t skimp
on tension or dark foreboding. |
| Cinematical |
Graham Reynolds' “haunting,
lovely score…fit subtly and perfectly with
the unique look of the film." |
| Daily Texan |
Reynolds score “seamlessly
fits…with unsettling chords and unidentifiable
instruments masterfully creating the ambience
of a drug-induced world. As soon as one
begins to get a grasp on one layer of sound,
a new riff from a different instrument barges
in and demands attention.
OR
“Seamless…Masterful…Eerie”
|
| Disquiet.com |
Graham Reynolds and the Golden
Arm Trio outdo themselves with scene-insinuating
backdrops and helter skelter mania for the
new flick A Scanner Darkly. |
| Gametz.com |
Graham Reynolds' score pops,
sizzles and soars in all the right places. |
| Variety |
Eerily evocative |
| Austin Chronicle |
Brilliant…An inner sanctum
of imagination and reverberation. |
| Robert Downey Jr., speaking
with Richard Linklater on MySpace’s “Artist
on Artist” |
Speaking of the music, that
was one of the great things…If this soundtrack
doesn’t do well I’ll eat my hat. Buy it kiddies,
and that’s not a joke! Now! |
| MoviesOnline.com |
Hauntingly Evocative |
| OneChick.com |
Super Cool, Amazing Sounds! |
| Facets Multi-Media |
The paranoid and uncertain
atmosphere is deftly underscored with music
by Graham Reynolds of the Golden Arm Trio. |
| Eklektikos' John Aielli of
KUT Radio |
I love it! |
| AmericanMusicPreservation.com |
A kind of contemporary noir…A
soundworld similar to that explored by Morriconne
[with] more updated instrumental sounds.” |
| Austin American-Statesman |
Reynolds has crafted a soundtrack
who’s dark, winsome beauty is not to be missed…At
once minimalist and busy, laced with wit and
steeped in portentous ambience and prismatic
moods. It's spooky and funny, a vivid evocation
of a bleakly imagined world slipping away. |
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