"[W]hen you hear something as audaciously new as There Will Be Blood," writes iF magazine's soundtrack editor Daniel Schweiger, "it’s a listening experience akin to coming across an oil gusher in a movie theater—the kind that blows your seat (and ears) to the ceiling with the sheer, often-insane beauty of what you’re hearing."

With an originality that "spurts in spades," Jonny Greenwood has created an "entrancing" score well suited to Paul Thomas Anderson's convention-smashing approach to filmmaking, writes Schweiger in his review of the soundtrack:

Greenwood shows he can do orchestra with the same innovative quality that he approaches Radiohead’s trance-rock with ... And like P.T Anderson’s best soundtracks, Greenwood achieves a musical f-you wallop that grabs our attention ... What [the two] offer is the kind of gorgeous, aching sadness that offers its own transformative power ... [W]e feel that Anderson and Greenwood have taken us on a journey into sound that’s truly new for film scoring.

And if it weren't already abundantly clear, the film, says Schweiger, "offers a major discovery in the talents of Jonny Greenwood."

To read the full review, visit ifmagazine.com. To purchase the record, visit the new Nonesuch Store.