Bleep

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s scoring collaboration remain ever fruitful as they sonify the first film adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novella Queer with fairytale orchestral arrangements that take surreal turns into blistering dark ambience. The film’s ‘Pure Love’ theme is a portrait of tenderness, focussed on flurries of soft woodwinds, soon overtaken by the grinding, overdriven, full throttle engine rumble EBM of ‘Place of Failure’. End credits theme ‘Vaster Than Empires’ brings the strange and the sensual worlds together, weaving autotune washed vocals between traipsing waves of synth and strings.