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They are (relatively) low-key and are starkly different from what's gone before. The final two tracks are also worth mentioning. Not all the quieter tracks are ambient soundscape: "The Accountant" and "Palomar Hotel", for example, use the same building blocks of guitar (including acoustic guitar and banjo) and percussion to add characterisation to the score rather than just wallpapering the movie in high-adrenaline rock. Listeners to the entire CD may relish these quieter breaks but I found I was missing the energetic rock during these quieter tracks, hoping for their return. And being a bit of a horror movie these quieter tracks also allow the composer to strategically place loud "stingers" that no doubt enhance the on-screen shocks. These probably work well in the movie but don't do much for me as a stand-alone listen. Tracks such as "I Never Get Curious", "A Door That Can't Be Closed" and "All You See" showcase Wandmacher's love for experimenting with electronic soundscapes.
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There are quieter moments, particularly in the middle of the score. It's loud also).īut it's not all loud though. Wandmacher in interview argues that music for a 3D movie needing to be bigger and bolder than what you would need for a conventional 2D movie because of the visual assault on the senses with a 3D movie: it needs to be an in-your-face score for it to punch through everything else that's going on (listen also to his other recent score to a 3D flick, Piranha 3D. But then subtle underscore would be completely lost in a film of this nature. Track after track is filled with the rock-and-roll mix of guitars and percussion, each track sounding more like individual instrumental B-sides from seventies rock bands than carefully thought out underscore. The overriding memory of this score is that it's loud, headachingly loud. "Full Frontal Shotgun" kicks things off with powerful electric guitars and pounding percussion, driving (no pun intended) the music forwards with all the sound levels cranked up to the max. Composer Michael Wandmacher taps into his experiences playing in Heavy Metal and Glam Rock bands to deliver for director Patrick Lussier a rock-fuelled, Western-influenced soundtrack.ĭrive Angry starts out as it means to go on. But that doesn't really matter as the little you do know will be blown from your head by the aural force of the music contained on this CD. In fact, I may already have given you too much information. That's all you really need to know about this movie as knowing any more isn't really going to help you "get" this score. Drive Angry stars Nicholas Cage as a bad man who is sent to hell, escapes from hell and goes on "A Mission".