{"id":20305,"date":"2020-05-27T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=20305"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:46:05","slug":"spaceship-earth-owen-pallett","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/spaceship-earth-owen-pallett\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceship Earth OST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

T minus three, two, one\u2026 Owen Pallett\u2019s score for the recent Netflix documentary Spaceship Earth<\/em> left the launch pad the same morning as the Toronto artist\u2019s own album Islands<\/em>, on May 22 (see our review of Islands<\/em> here).<\/a> Timeliness is a theme here \u2013 Spaceship Earth<\/em>, a look at the two-year quarantine undertaken by the crew of the self-contained ecosystem Biosphere 2, is particularly resonant in this period of voluntary confinement backdropped by escalating environmental danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woodwinds and popping strings of opener \u201cMountAnalogue\u201d suggest a competent yet fairly conventional film score ahead, and that\u2019s indeed the case for most of it. In fact, some moments are merely pastiches of film-score titans like Danny Elfman (\u201cThe Test Module\u201d) or Michael Nyman (\u201cBiosphere 2, IV\u201d). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the melodies and the juxtapositions in the arrangements often bear a signature that\u2019s unmistakably Pallett\u2019s, and there are plenty of interesting deviations from the general guidelines, celestial solo piano passages and such. Overall, it ain\u2019t a canon work for Pallett, and unlikely to attract a second Academy Award nomination (the first was for his work with Win Butler on Spike Jonze\u2019s Her<\/em>), but certainly not without its charms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n