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I recently watched this, and thought it was great. It's the best Apollo film I've seen alongside the superior Apollo 13.
Justin Hurwitz is one to watch!
Well I can only think of THREE. films on the space program!
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Hurwitz was robbed !
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If the film was better and performed at the box office, it might have been no.
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The score arrived today in the mail. I recently saw the movie and say what you want, the music stood out. It's not that often anymore that I see a movie and feel afterwards that I have to pick up the film score (unless it's a composer who I already enjoy anyway).
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Yeah, I just listened to it for the first time on its own, and it is more powerful as "pure" music than I expected it to be. This is my first Justin Hurwitz score, and wow, I am impressed. The recording quality is excellent. I got the CD, not a download, so I don't even know if there is an even better sounding high-res download, but the CD already showcases a terrific sounding recording. Deep bass, voluminous reverberation but not at the cost of detail, huge sound even when few instruments are playing, precise soundstage.
While I thought the music was derivative (particularly of Glass) within the context of the movie -- and it is at times -- it finds a surprisingly coherent and individual voice of its own when you listen to it as music away from the picture. Everything falls into place, even the source cues "belong" to this score. Heck, when did I ever find "Les Baxter" as diegetic source music in a movie? I am also deeply impressed by the use of the theremin in this movie, that was inspiring. The instrument may be interesting, and sure I know SPELLBOUND (which I just listened to directly afterwards tonight) but the theremin often it draws attention to itself, or is used purposely to invoke an alien kind of tone, but here, it is organically interwoven into the music in a way I have not heard before. Like a vocal, haunting voice.
It's been quite a while that I saw a movie and just had the composer afterwards listed in my head as a "wow, look out for this guy", but Justin Hurwitz just catapulted himself into this rank. I remember I felt like that about Horner when I saw WOLFEN and STAR TREK II back in the day. :-D
In any case, I am very much looking forward to whatever Hurwitz comes up with next.
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Sounds like something a semi-gifted amateur might post on youtube as his own homemade Garageband alternative to a real film score.
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I got the CD, not a download, so I don't even know if there is an even better sounding high-res download, but the CD already showcases a terrific sounding recording. Deep bass, voluminous reverberation but not at the cost of detail, huge sound even when few instruments are playing, precise soundstage.
CD is always better 
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Shoutout for one wonderful, shamefully underrated score.
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