Search - Howard Shore :: Existenz: Music from the Motion Picture

Shore and Cronenberg with another winner!

Ryan Harvey | Los Angeles, CA USA | 05/04/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Shore has been collaborating with sci-fi and horror master David Cronenberg since the 1970s, and this score is yet another wonderful result. Like many of Shore's dark and brooding scores (THE GAME comes to mind) this isn't a CD from which you can pick favorite tracks -- there is really only one track that had to be divided into multiple parts. Most of the tracks sound similar and cannot be differentiated easily -- but in Shore's case this isn't criticism but praise. The score is like a book: you can't skip to one part and read it on its own and expect full gratification. The only way to listen to this CD is to pop into your player, press play, and let it unwind and permeated the room. A wonderful exericise in gloomy, doom-ridden atmospherics. Check out the movie, too -- the best thing Cronenberg has done since DEAD RINGERS."