ROB Maniac (2013) LP Death Waltz synth horror soundtrack Phoenix john carpenter

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ROB Maniac (2013) LP

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(Death Waltz)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   Finally snagged this 2014 North American repress of the fantastic score to Franck Khalfoun's 2012 remake of the grindhouse classic Maniac, composed and performed by Robin Coudert from French synthpop stars Phoenix. I finally got around to seeing this film late last year, and not without a bit of trepidation; William Lustig's 1980 original is a masterwork of sleaze, sacrosanct, a degenerate vision of human evil that never lost it's ability to hit me at a visceral level every time I revisited it. And yet I ended up being pleasantly surprised to find the remake was actually pretty great, and supremely sick in a way you don't often see in modern horror films. A remaining that transformed the original story into something new, casting Elijah Wood in the lead role as Frank Zito, the deranged owner of a mannequin shop who descends into an abyss of mutilation and murder, all creatively filmed from a first person perspective that gave the film an air of verisimilitude. But Just as important to the films effectiveness as the sickening murder sequences and Wood's glassy stare was the pulsating synthesizer score from Rob, one of the coolest synthwave soundtracks for a modern horror movie I've heard.
    Naturally, Rob's score has shades of John Carpenter classic minimalist synth-scores, but you can also hear the influence of Giorgio Moroder's throbbing film score for 1982's Cat People, as well as hints of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream, those various forms of vintage 80's era synthesizer music fused together, sprawling across slow hypnotic rhythms and muted motorik pulses, eerie electronic melodies and smatterings of mournful piano entwined together. Tracks like "Headache" evoke a more sinister Kavinsky, that sort of old-school synthwave fused to an almost unshakeable sense of dread and misery; these dark synthesizer pieces are more than a nostalgic accoutrement for this contemporary restaging of the gore-drenched scum-epic, and are as intrinsic to the film's strange, terminally unsettling atmosphere as Wood's chillingly blank portrayal of Frank. Growling black drones and eerie mewling melodies and pulsating drum machine beats all propel the murderous tension of tracks like "Haunted", and stretches of stripped-down minimal throb and undulating waves of grim electronics combine with mournful strings and languid bass elsewhere on the album, followed by swirling arrangements for choral voices and elliptical keyboards somewhat reminiscent of Phillip Glass, and closing with the haunting synthpop of "Juno" from British alt pop songstress Chloe Alper, that infectious synthpop song that played out over the film's closing credits.
    Maniac is beautifully packaged in typical Death Waltz fashion, housed in an unsettling casewrapped gatefold that features a slightly blurred close-up of one of Frank's fetishized mannequins on the cover, accompanied by a 12" by 12" lithograph art print of the cover art and liner notes from Coudert, pressed on clear heavyweight vinyl.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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