My Rating: 3.8/5
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Johann Johannsson is one of the young living greats in the field of modern composition music amongst my other favourites like Max Richter, Peter Broderick, Keith Kenniff, Olafur Arnalds, etc….. so it's easy to understating that this Icelandic musician, composer and producer will always take part in film score works due to his composition talent.......he has been great in making music and film score presented by strings orchestral like his last album “And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees”for the film "Varmits" by Mark Craste. This new release is no exception which was made for the same named movie ‘The Miners’ Hymns’. But the new thing is it is no more a string orchestral play and instead is a brass ensemble orchestral stuff which provide a very different vibe compared to his previous works. I haven’t seen this movie and only heard that it’s a sad history-telling story to celebrate the coal-mining culture and movement in the northern English city, Durham
Listening movie soundtracks sometimes is a complete different listening experience and approach to a normal album…..take this one as example, it will be quite a tasteless one if listening this solely as a music album of full of brass plays blowing for nothing…….but when connecting the score with the movie’s story line (though not yet having watched the movie), you will be easily touched by the vibe created by the brass instruments and it’s a very good soundtrack offering excellent background mood for the movie with rich implication for the dark old days in 70s with those working level people surviving in their days like a dog fighting for their deserved rights and justices……when you immersed in this mood of humanity thinking with those sentimental brass orchestral plays, you will be moved with tears in your eyes…….it’s a really stunning movie score that can just capture the vibe of the movie!!!
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