Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: The Road – Original Film Score | CD review

Plaintive piano-violin interplay is too slight to leave much impressionThe end of the world has never been far from Cave's thoughts in his rock-star guise, so in his film-composer one it's only fitting that he should soundtrack The Road's post-apocalyptic fable. His third score with Bad Seed Ellis is a sparely accomplished work, in which plaintive piano and violin combine to evoke the desolate tenderness of the central father-son relationship, while occasional bursts of industrial, percussion-dr...

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