Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film | ||||
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Released | May 24, 2005 | |||
Genre | Ambient | |||
Length | 45:01 | |||
Label | Commotion | |||
Producer | Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd | |||
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AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film is an album of music composed and performed by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd for the film Mysterious Skin. [2] [3] [4] The music was published on a CD inside a digipak containing images from the film.
AllMusic wrote that "the soundtrack plays as a piece, with a moody, yet darkly alluring mood prevailing throughout ... should please fans of ambient, post rock experimentation, and smart, well-executed film music." [1] The Austin Chronicle called the music "ethereal," writing that it "subtly enriches the sense of mystery that lies at the movie's core." [5] Vice called it "both gorgeous and sad." [6]
Alex Ross, in The New Yorker, wrote: "Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie, in their score for the new Gregg Araki film Mysterious Skin, do something wholly unexpected: as a horrendous story of child abuse in a Kansas town unfolds, the music sways toward a state of irrational bliss, as if to numb the pain." [7]