Title: An Ambient Masterpiece
Review: The movie Mysterious Skin is often a harsh unflinching look at male prostitution and child molestation but it was so well made and offset by such a beautiful score it worked.Here on it's own the score by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd turns out to be extremely good on it's own.Back in the 80's Harold Budd and Brian Eno turned ambient music into an art and this is a welcome return for Budd which will hopefully introduce a whole new generation to his music.The soundtrack not only works as soothing background music but if you listen to it in it's entirety it's hypnotically satisfying.It's a measure of greatness of ambient music if it's as interesting in the foreground as it is in the background and Mysterious Skin succeeds in that aspect.Also because there are no big John Williams type numbers that totally belong to certain movie scenes you can enjoy this soundtrack without ever having to see the movie.(though you ought to see the great film)
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