Jonny Greenwood's Score to Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" Now on Vinyl

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The soundtrack to Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, featuring Jonny Greenwood's Academy Award–nominated score, is now available on vinyl, following its CD and digital release earlier this year. The special vinyl edition includes the album on two 140-gram LPs and a 24-page booklet of Greenwood's score. IndieWire calls the score "a masterpiece," naming it the year's best, and one of the century's best as well. Look inside the vinyl package here.

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The soundtrack to Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, featuring Jonny Greenwood's Academy Award–nominated score, is now available on vinyl via Nonesuch Records, following its CD and digital release earlier this year. The special vinyl edition includes the album on two 140-gram LPs and a 24-page booklet of Greenwood's score. Look inside in the video below. To pick up a copy of the album, head to your local music store, Amazon, and the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout; the album can be heard on Spotify and Apple Music as well.

"This is startlingly expansive music," says the Guardian's Bim Adewunmi in an essay extolling the score's virtues, "liable to make the listener believe they can leap buildings in a single bound, and when the strings sweep in, in the middle of 'House of Woodcock,' it’s all I can do to remain tethered to the Earth." IndieWire calls Greenwood's score "a masterpiece," naming it the year's best, and one of the century's best as well.

The film Phantom Thread, now available on Blu-Ray/DVD in the US, earns five-star reviews from the Guardian ("such pure delicious pleasure in this film"), Financial Times ("mesmerising ... [Anderson] gets everything right here"), and Daily Express ("an audacious, spellbinding slice of storytelling").

Phantom Thread is set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, where renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants, and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

The composer spoke to Variety about the process of creating a score that reflected the film's romance and glamour: "We talked a lot about '50s music, what was popularly heard then as well as what was being written and recorded. Nelson Riddle and Glenn Gould's Bach recordings were the main references. I was interested in the kind of jazz records that toyed with incorporating big string sections; Ben Webster made some good ones." Greenwood continues, "The smaller groups, and solo players, work like close-ups [and] not necessarily to accompany [a] visual, but rather, to focus your attention on and make you feel directly engaged with the characters. The bigger orchestral things often worked best for drawing you back to see the bigger situation."

Anderson and Greenwood's previous collaborations include the soundtrack for Academy Award–winning There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), and Inherent Vice (2014), all released by Nonesuch. Indiewire says of their collaboration: "Paul Thomas Anderson fans are well accustomed to how instrumental Jonny Greenwood's music is to the auteur's body of work. Whether it's the foreboding strings in There Will Be Blood or the discordant percussion in The Master, Greenwood's original scores expertly capture Anderson's tones. This fact is especially true in Phantom Thread, which marks the fourth collaboration between Anderson and Greenwood."

Widely known as the guitarist for Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood is also a highly respected composer. In addition to the Anderson film soundtracks, Nonesuch also released his score for Norwegian Wood, his collaboration with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, and his performance of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint. Most recently, the label released Junun—a collaboration between Greenwood, composer/musician Shye Ben Tzur, and a group of Indian musicians called the Rajasthan Express that was recorded in the fifteenth-century Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India. Paul Thomas Anderson came along to document the sessions. The resulting impressionistic film, also entitled Junun, debuted at the New York Film Festival, before screening at several other international festivals.

Nonesuch also released the soundtrack for Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love—a smart pop score by composer/producer Jon Brion—in 2002. Anderson's other previous films—all of which have been highly praised—include Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999).

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Jonny Greenwood: "Phantom Thread" [vinyl]
  • Friday, April 20, 2018
    Jonny Greenwood's Score to Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" Now on Vinyl

    The soundtrack to Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, featuring Jonny Greenwood's Academy Award–nominated score, is now available on vinyl via Nonesuch Records, following its CD and digital release earlier this year. The special vinyl edition includes the album on two 140-gram LPs and a 24-page booklet of Greenwood's score. Look inside in the video below. To pick up a copy of the album, head to your local music store, Amazon, and the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout; the album can be heard on Spotify and Apple Music as well.

    "This is startlingly expansive music," says the Guardian's Bim Adewunmi in an essay extolling the score's virtues, "liable to make the listener believe they can leap buildings in a single bound, and when the strings sweep in, in the middle of 'House of Woodcock,' it’s all I can do to remain tethered to the Earth." IndieWire calls Greenwood's score "a masterpiece," naming it the year's best, and one of the century's best as well.

    The film Phantom Thread, now available on Blu-Ray/DVD in the US, earns five-star reviews from the Guardian ("such pure delicious pleasure in this film"), Financial Times ("mesmerising ... [Anderson] gets everything right here"), and Daily Express ("an audacious, spellbinding slice of storytelling").

    Phantom Thread is set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, where renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants, and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

    The composer spoke to Variety about the process of creating a score that reflected the film's romance and glamour: "We talked a lot about '50s music, what was popularly heard then as well as what was being written and recorded. Nelson Riddle and Glenn Gould's Bach recordings were the main references. I was interested in the kind of jazz records that toyed with incorporating big string sections; Ben Webster made some good ones." Greenwood continues, "The smaller groups, and solo players, work like close-ups [and] not necessarily to accompany [a] visual, but rather, to focus your attention on and make you feel directly engaged with the characters. The bigger orchestral things often worked best for drawing you back to see the bigger situation."

    Anderson and Greenwood's previous collaborations include the soundtrack for Academy Award–winning There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), and Inherent Vice (2014), all released by Nonesuch. Indiewire says of their collaboration: "Paul Thomas Anderson fans are well accustomed to how instrumental Jonny Greenwood's music is to the auteur's body of work. Whether it's the foreboding strings in There Will Be Blood or the discordant percussion in The Master, Greenwood's original scores expertly capture Anderson's tones. This fact is especially true in Phantom Thread, which marks the fourth collaboration between Anderson and Greenwood."

    Widely known as the guitarist for Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood is also a highly respected composer. In addition to the Anderson film soundtracks, Nonesuch also released his score for Norwegian Wood, his collaboration with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, and his performance of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint. Most recently, the label released Junun—a collaboration between Greenwood, composer/musician Shye Ben Tzur, and a group of Indian musicians called the Rajasthan Express that was recorded in the fifteenth-century Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India. Paul Thomas Anderson came along to document the sessions. The resulting impressionistic film, also entitled Junun, debuted at the New York Film Festival, before screening at several other international festivals.

    Nonesuch also released the soundtrack for Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love—a smart pop score by composer/producer Jon Brion—in 2002. Anderson's other previous films—all of which have been highly praised—include Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999).

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