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 Posted:   Mar 23, 2019 - 5:02 PM   
 By:   GoblinScore   (Member)

Is there another thread on this yet?

Anyways, FANTASTIC main title, buying album on that alone. A real MT sequence, I'm still fluttering...excellent choral work.

Rest of the score is good, couple highlights within, more horror-trope- taiko-drum-reliance than I care for but I'll live. Source songs take up a couple key points & i was elated to hear that great Minnie Ripperton tune, again, used well (ex. INHERENT VICE, PTA is thanked in the end titles too....).
At least one concert-service toward the end, but a Tchaikovsky adaptation it may be. Heard a touch of ARP-MOOG coloring & some nice atonal-ish string moments.

Good film, some interesting ideas in there,like a TZ episode with current socio-politico leanings.
Worth seeing, nice companion to GET OUT.

 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2019 - 7:08 PM   
 By:   La La Land Records   (Member)

Liked the film and loved that score. Best horror score I have heard in quite some time

MV

 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2019 - 7:44 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

Great movie, and SUPERB score, like the ghost of Jerry Goldsmith at his most experimental/atonal crossed with Christopher Young.

 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2019 - 7:53 PM   
 By:   foxmorty   (Member)

Loved the music as well. Some real stand outs. The movie not so much. Talk about a long walk For that premise.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2019 - 8:11 PM   
 By:   GoblinScore   (Member)

You gotta applaud Peele a little for some audacity in mounting this thing though. A bit humbling that something with some 70s giallo, conspiracy-type flavor is popular, on Peele's name alone...right?
Interesting flick countering the unintersting fare currently.

Oh, did you guys hear the semi-Golden Age "lipstick " string piece? Seemed like a wink to Al Newman silky strings...I thought so.

 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2019 - 10:14 PM   
 By:   La La Land Records   (Member)

Seriously this is the most effective horror score I have heard in quite some time. Great MT, effective playful theme. Creepy as hell. Wonderfully Herrmnann/Goldsmithesque.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2019 - 7:44 AM   
 By:   MCurry29   (Member)

Michael Abels delivers the goods. Again. Think I'll put on my GET OUT Vinyl and give a spin. Hoping US gets the vinyl treatment as well. Better than a digipak CD.

 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2019 - 8:19 AM   
 By:   acathla   (Member)

Forgive my ignorance, but I see a lot of people comparing this movie to "Get Out", is it a sequel? Or a spin-off or something?

 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2019 - 10:45 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Get out was the first film directed by Jordan Peele and scored by Michael Abels. Us is the second.

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2019 - 12:44 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Michael Abels delivers the goods. Again. Think I'll put on my GET OUT Vinyl and give a spin. Hoping US gets the vinyl treatment as well. Better than a digipak CD.

How is a vinyl better than a digipak CD (other than the usual arguments for vinyl like it’s warmer-sounding and all that shit)? Is it because it’s 30 dollars more, larger and more fragile? Just wondering.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2019 - 5:59 PM   
 By:   MCurry29   (Member)

Michael Abels delivers the goods. Again. Think I'll put on my GET OUT Vinyl and give a spin. Hoping US gets the vinyl treatment as well. Better than a digipak CD.

How is a vinyl better than a digipak CD (other than the usual arguments for vinyl like it’s warmer-sounding and all that shit)? Is it because it’s 30 dollars more, larger and more fragile? Just wondering.


None of those reasons smart ass. You are not wondering you're just insulting. What I do should not really concern you

I have been buying/collecting/selling/trading vinyl seriously since I was 15yo So for 40 years now. In the 80s-2000's buying vinyl was mandatory as my main focus was Soul, Funk, an Hip Hop and there was no other way to get the independent AND Major Label releases I wanted.
I have never stopped and never will. I have a love affair with records that you could not even comprehend and I am not alone.

I have a shitload more CD's and will be buying US CD- just like I bought the CD of GET OUT.

I'm a collector and have a collector's mentality. I only buy new vinyl of scores/composers I love. I buy old vinyl of scores not on CD.

Yer a Jerky Boy. Always having to make a negative remark when anyone mentions vinyl.

 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2019 - 7:05 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Michael Abels delivers the goods. Again. Think I'll put on my GET OUT Vinyl and give a spin. Hoping US gets the vinyl treatment as well. Better than a digipak CD.

How is a vinyl better than a digipak CD (other than the usual arguments for vinyl like it’s warmer-sounding and all that shit)? Is it because it’s 30 dollars more, larger and more fragile? Just wondering.


None of those reasons smart ass. You are not wondering you're just insulting. What I do should not really concern you

I have been buying/collecting/selling/trading vinyl seriously since I was 15yo So for 40 years now. In the 80s-2000's buying vinyl was mandatory as my main focus was Soul, Funk, an Hip Hop and there was no other way to get the independent AND Major Label releases I wanted.
I have never stopped and never will. I have a love affair with records that you could not even comprehend and I am not alone.

I have a shitload more CD's and will be buying US CD- just like I bought the CD of GET OUT.

I'm a collector and have a collector's mentality. I only buy new vinyl of scores/composers I love. I buy old vinyl of scores not on CD.

Yer a Jerky Boy. Always having to make a negative remark when anyone mentions vinyl.


False. I have loads and loads of records myself. Fine to get the LP over the CD, so long as the LP comes with a download (if this comes out on a boutique label, those usually don’t). I was just wondering why you think vinyl is better than a digipak version of a CD specifically. Aren’t both sleeves made of cardboard?

 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2019 - 1:10 AM   
 By:   drivingmissdaisy   (Member)

What a great film, scared the poopoo out of me. I was scared like a kid. Abels really delivered a great score. GO SEE THE FILM smile

 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2019 - 5:34 AM   
 By:   acathla   (Member)

Get out was the first film directed by Jordan Peele and scored by Michael Abels. Us is the second.

Yavar


Aha so they have nothing to do with each other then (movies wise).
Just the same director and composer.

 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2019 - 6:15 AM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)

I saw it yesterday and also really loved both the score and film. The story reminded me of a certain Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode, but that's all I will say to avoid any spoilers.

Abels score was fantastic.

 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2019 - 11:20 AM   
 By:   Jon Broxton   (Member)

My review of US, for anyone who's interested:

https://moviemusicuk.us/2019/03/26/us-michael-abels/

Jon

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2019 - 2:30 PM   
 By:   kaseykockroach   (Member)

75 minutes is quite a bit much, especially for a horror score. I'm sure someone will get around to finding an ideal shorter playlist sometime.

 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2019 - 3:56 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Listened to a few cues, then when the BRRRAAAAMMMMM came in, I abandoned ship. Nothing I need to hear again.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 27, 2019 - 8:12 PM   
 By:   RustyNail   (Member)

CD might be coming out on April 5th.

https://www.amazon.com/Us-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B07PPQ9HKD/ref=sr_1_81?keywords=soundtrack&qid=1553738918&s=music&sr=1-81

 
 Posted:   Mar 28, 2019 - 12:04 AM   
 By:   Tom Maguire   (Member)

Read something somewhere that Peele couldn't find a black composer to save his life so he decided to hire a guy who had never composed a film score before?
I'll dig up that article.

 
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