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Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film
Soundtrack album by
Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd
ReleasedMay 24, 2005
GenreAmbient
Length45:01
LabelCommotion
ProducerRobin Guthrie, Harold Budd
Harold Budd chronology
Music for 'Fragments from the Inside'
(2005) 		Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film
(2005) 		Perhaps
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film is an album of music composed and performed by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd for the film Mysterious Skin.[2][3][4] The music was published on a CD inside a digipak containing images from the film.

Critical reception

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AllMusic wrote that "the soundtrack plays as a piece, with a moody, yet darkly alluring mood prevailing throughout ... should please fans of ambient, post rock experimentation, and smart, well-executed film music."[1] The Austin Chronicle called the music "ethereal," writing that it "subtly enriches the sense of mystery that lies at the movie's core."[5] Vice called it "both gorgeous and sad."[6]

Alex Ross, in The New Yorker, wrote: "Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie, in their score for the new Gregg Araki film Mysterious Skin, do something wholly unexpected: as a horrendous story of child abuse in a Kansas town unfolds, the music sways toward a state of irrational bliss, as if to numb the pain."[7]

Track listing

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  1. "Neil's Theme" – 2:14
  2. "The Memories Returning" – 2:08
  3. "Snowfall" – 6:30
  4. "Neil's Farewell" – 2:31
  5. "Childhood Lost" – 2:38
  6. "Halloween" – 3:18
  7. "A Silhouette Approaches" – 2:28
  8. "Goodbye to Wendy" – 2:46
  9. "Brian's Nightmare / The Unknown, Part One" – 4:04
  10. "Twilight" – 3:46
  11. "The Unknown, Part Two" – 2:11
  12. "The Discovery" – 2:27
  13. "Loitering" – 3:38
  14. "The Writing on the Wall" – 1:50
  15. "One True Love" – 2:32

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mysterious Skin - Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. ^ "Robin Guthrie | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  3. ^ Scott, A. o (6 May 2005). "Seeking Adult Answers in Two Scarred Boyhoods". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ "Harold Budd: Budd in May". The Independent. 8 May 2005. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Movie Review: Mysterious Skin". www.austinchronicle.com.
  6. ^ "Cocteau Twins: What to Listen From the Hypnotic Dream Pop-Pioneers". www.vice.com. 24 April 2020.
  7. ^ Ross, Alex (19 June 2005). "Sound and Vision". The New Yorker.


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