Chiaroscuro by Ocean Alley

Aussie band. Great bluesy rock album. Their lead guitarist often channels Slash. Great lead vocals.

The album is on spotify, get on it fuckers.

Holy shit the score to Phantom Thread is astonishingly gorgeous. Beyond the film itself and even the film's use of the music, this is a complex, lush and evocative collection in its own right. Bach, Chopin, Satie; Baroque, Romanticism, Minimalism -- it's all woven together so beautifully and filtered through Greenwood's own voice. This might be even better than his amazing score for The Master. "House of Woodcock" is going to be in my head for a while.

I'm also now listening to Richmond Fontaine's new album "Don't Skip Out on Me", which is actually an original score/soundtrack intended for his new Willy Vlautin novel. It is really beautiful and (so far - 6 songs in) perfect background music.

Thanks for the tip. The novel is in my too read pile but I had no idea a soundtrack existed.

Have you read his other two books?

I'm going to grab the first book and give it a read through I think. I know 'sleep mentioned it to me before but I never got round to it.

*adds to list*

If you like Richmond Fontaine make sure to check out Willy's other band The Delines. Basically RF with a female singer. Kinda has a late night country soul vibe. A few of the songs are pretty much deleted scenes from his books.

Gonna give this a listen this afternoon while finishing some work. I'll report back.

yea boi