One Battle After Another [Soundtrack]

The majority of the score for One Battle is filled with clicks, taps, and echoes pulsing away in the background, seeming to put the film on a treadmill; reminiscent of the rhythmically-twitchy pair of records Greenwood has recently made with The Smile. A certain insistence also shows up in the score’s main theme and best musical idea, where a stubborn, repeated piano note suddenly hinges into electric, surging string chords. One of the other hallmarks of the score is a sense of “music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air,” where retro guitars and violins reconstruct a radical past.