As you already know by now, soundtracks hold a special place in this blog. In that spirit we have a special treat for you. Two mini albums, both of which are the musical background of a typically mute medium. "Blankets" and "Finch" are the soundtracks for the respective books (or for Blankets to be exact, the graphic novel). The first one is composed from a band I really don't know anything about. However they present a really nice accompanying setting for reading the book by the one and only Craig Thompson. Which by the way is awesome! I really should write something sometime about this graphic wonder...
"Finch" is the soundtrack of the book with the same title by Jeff Vandermeer. In this case, I have no info about the book, but if you followed the blog you'll know by now our endless admire for Murder By Death. In a few words, "Finch" is the soundtrack MBD should have in their discography and I really hope the get the chance to make a full-length one for a movie (a really haunting one of course). Here are a few words from the band itself, since it doesn't seem proper to do a review for this kind of release.
"It is an instrumental soundtrack to a book called "Finch" by Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror author Jeff Vandermeer. He approached MBD about doing a soundtrack to go with the limited edition of his new book, and we thought it was such a strange idea we had to do it. The book reminds us of Bladerunner- with spore-faced bad guys. Bitchin'. We locked ourselves up in our friends studio (Farm Fresh) in Bloomington, IN for 5 days and wrote and recorded an instrumental album inspired by the book. We have used a lot of crazy techniques that we have never tried before on this record. Our old pianist Vincent Edwards lent his hand(s) at the piano, organs, and Rhodes. Each song is attempting to recreate a scene or mood from the book- the release shows the page numbers in the book that correspond to each track on the CD."
Click here to get both!
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