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You may remember his track ‘You’ from Amy Dyer’s funeral, and it’s included here. One minute you’re frolicking through the dark pastoral whimsy of ‘Amy Dyer’, the next you’re immersed ear-deep in the throbbing, post-traumatic nightmare of ‘PDS’.Ĭomplementing Butt’s outstanding work, three of the twenty-two tracks are songs from the folk-rock musician Keaton Henson, a singer with a voice as delicate and mournful as flowers laid at a headstone. Much as Christobal Tapia de Veer’s Utopia soundtracks captured the insanity of conspiracy, so Butt has translated the senselessness of death and the restless uncertainty of rebirth into an album that keeps your ears on tenterhooks (a grisly thought outside of metaphor). Even in the fragile beauty of a track like ‘Jem Walker’, you’re waiting for something to stir and jump out at you. True to the settlement of Roarton, there’s something of the unshut parish gate and the twitching pub curtain about what you hear a nervous energy that pervades even the most melancholy of pieces. It’s at once both beautiful and disquieting.
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Headphones on, I was expecting the typical Horror genre hubbub of staccato leaps and jarring stabs at the strings, forgetting that composer Edmund Butt’s score has risen from a show built on moments of great emotional intimacy and personal fragility – and, yes, the odd wonderfully bloody bit – rather than just shock and gore.įrom the restless earth and even more restless domesticity of Dominic Mitchell’s drama, Butt (composer of the spectacular score for 2013’s Doctor Who drama-doc An Adventure in Space and Time) has created a musical experience that can be best described as bucolic horror a tone poem of tracks which fall about you like an eerie mist in an overwhelmingly concrete village. And much like that show, is a more nuanced work than you’d expect from something about the undead. The In the Flesh OST is a terrific audio memory to accompany your fallen favourite show. That’s too jaundiced a way of looking at things, and certainly in respect to a fine soundtrack.Īll you Rotter fans, don’t think of this as a reminder of what you’ve lost (#SaveInTheFlesh!), but a souvenir of what you had. Here’s a nice reminder that one of the BBC’s best BAFTA-winning shows hasn’t been recommissioned: the soundtrack to that BAFTA-winning BBC show.