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2025, 2×12″ LP, Mutant/Masterworks/Proximity Media.
Ryan Coogler’s 2025 period horror epic gets a double-barrelled musical treatment courtesy of longtime collaborator Ludwig Goransson, who helms both a star-studded original soundtrack and an original score. The Swedish composer, now LA-based, grounds the first in deep, smoky blues and soul i recorded live with Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Hailee Steinfeld, Rod Wave and more i while the second is a sprawling instrumental suite full of spectral folk motifs and aching melodic fragments. Both releases came out the same day as the film in April 2025, via Sony Masterworks and Sony Classical respectively. From the soulful chug of ‘This Little Light of Mine’ and Rod Wave’s moody title track, to the resonator-led gothic tension of ‘Clarksdale Love’ and ‘Grand Closin”, the project fuses vintage fidelity with modern production flair. The musicianship is staggering throughout, captured across Royal Studios Memphis, Electric Lady in New York and more. Goransson’s use of the same Dobro guitar carried by lead character Sammie Moore adds an uncanny weight to his score i the whole thing is textured, world-building work. This is Southern Gothic by way of jazz, blues, doom metal and chamber music i and a major release in both the soundtrack and score worlds.
