(2023) Brian Eno - Top Boy (Score from the Original Series) [FLAC]

    (2023) Brian Eno - Top Boy (Score from the Original Series)        





Review:

The latest Brian Eno endeavor is a compilation of pieces he created over the last five years for the soundtrack of the British television drama Top Boy. It’s been described as “the UK’s answer to The Wire”. (Two tracks — “Top Boy” and “The Sombre” — previously appeared on the compilation Film Music 1976-2020.) The first two seasons of Top Boy originally aired on Channel 4, in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Netflix later reviewed it and seasons four and five were shown in 2019 and 2022. A fifth and final season is due to start on 7 September, 2023. This official release (“Score from the Original Series”) is the first time any music from the ongoing drama has been issued. This 19-track selection includes two cuts that were not actually used in any episode of the series (so far), including ‘Cutting Room I’.“From the beginning of Top Boy, I was given the freedom to work in the way I prefer,” said Eno in a press release. “Making music and atmospheres and then giving it to the film makers to use as they saw fit. I try to absorb the idea of what a piece is about and from that I produce a lot of music, and say, ‘Here it is. Use it as you wish.” He continued: “If you’d been scoring it in the conventional Hollywood way, the temptation would be to up the excitement factor, up the danger factor, all the time. But Top Boy is really about children in a pretty bad situation. So I explored the internal world of the children, not just what’s happening to them in the external world. Quite a lot of the music was deliberately naive, it was sort of simple. The melodies were simple, not really sophisticated, or grown-up.” — superdeluxeedition





   





Track List:

01 - Top Boy Theme

02 - But Not This Way

03 - Damp Bones

04 - Cutting Room I

05 - Floating On Sleep's Shore

06 - Beauty and Danger

07 - Beneath the Sea

08 - Afraid of Things

09 - Waiting in Darkness

10 - The Fountain King

11 - Washed Away in Morocco

12 - Overground

13 - Watching the Watcher

14 - Sweet Dark Section

15 - Sky Blue Alert

16 - Delirious Circle

17 - Cutting Room II

18 - Dangerous Landscape

19 - The Good Fight





Media Report:

Genre: ambient, original soundtrack

Country: Suffolk, England

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec

Bit rate mode: Variable

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits

Compression mode: Lossless

Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)





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