Ambient Matters: The 15 Best Ambient Albums of March 2024
This month’s best ambient/experimental releases yielded enough sublime music to send you drifting into transcendence for many moons to come.
Clint Mansell
Clint Mansell: High-Rise (OST)
With the eerie soundtrack to High-Rise, Clint Mansell maintains his reputation for excellence in the world of film music.
A Call for the Academy to Reconceptualize the Best Original Score Category
So long as the Academy clings to a myopic definition of what an "original" score is, too many deserving composers will be left out come Oscar night.
A Healthy Dose of Darkness: The Best Film Scores of 2014
The year 2014 saw classic composer/director teams hit new highs, as well as a considerable dark streak take over the world of film scoring.
That Which Crawls Out of Speakers and Inches Along Your Nerves: Notable Film Scores of Early 2014
From Biblical epics to run-of-the-mill rom-coms, Notes on Celluloid takes a look at (and listen to) some of the strongest film music of 2014 thus far.