I thought the Man of Steel score would be the one to beat this summer but I was mistaken. Ryan Amon really brings it with the Elysium score. The action just breaks through your speakers and bum rushes your senses. It actually reminds me of Hans Zimmer's work on the Batman films. There's a sense of urgency with each track that I thought was missing from other summer scores like Pacific Rim(which I love as a film). The Pacific Rim soundtrack unlike Elysium was repetitive and rather dull going against the fantastic direction by Guillermo del Toro.
Two of my favorite pieces from the score of Elysium are the songs "Fire and Water" and "New Heaven, New Earth." The way he arranges the strings in these pieces, wow. Seriously, just makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand. When I think epic soundscape, I think of a sound like this.
I wanted to see the film prior to hearing the score but now I'm even more interested. Yeah, I'm obviously going about this all backwards. Elysium is definitely worth adding to your collection if you like a bombastic epic score to listen to while you read or write. I know I do and this is already getting a lot of plays. Remember the name Ryan Amon, he has a bright future ahead of him. Here's a piece he put out on the web a few years ago and probably one of the reasons Neil Blomkamp hand picked Amon to score Elysium.
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