Daniel Blumberg scored Brady Corbet’s new A24 movie The Brutalist, and he’s now sharing the details of his soundtrack album. The Brutalist soundtrack is out December 13 via Milan Records. Leading the 32-song release are three “Overture” tracks. Listen to the new songs below.
In a statement about the “Overture” songs, Blumberg said: “Brady and I wanted there to be continual music for the first 10 minutes of the film, and the entire opening sequence was actually shot and choreographed to the music using my initial demos. The ‘Overture’ introduces the main players who appear throughout the film—including pianists John Tilbury, Sophie Agnel and Simon Sieger; Axel Dörner on trumpet; Evan Parker on saxophone—and it also covers the full spectrum of sounds and dynamics, the cacophony of the brass, the repetition of the prepared piano, the more lyrical piano melodies, and the instrumental techniques that blur with the diegetic sound. With the ‘Overture’ I wanted to create this extremely disorientating, sensory overload that immediately immerses you in the film.”
Blumberg previously worked with Corbet on the short film Gyuto. He also ventured into film scoring when he made music for Mona Fastvold’s 2020 movie The World to Come.
Blumberg’s former band, Yuck, officially broke up in 2021. The British rock group released its self-titled debut in 2011, and shared just two more albums, Glow & Behold and Stranger Things, neither of which featured Blumberg, who left Yuck in 2013. As a solo artist, Blumberg has released three non-soundtrack studio albums under his given name: Minus, On&On, and Gut.
The Brutalist stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and gets released widely in the United States on Friday, December 20.