Just listened. Very short (only 30 mins), with "Sandman" and "Moth" being the only actual songs (sung by the Gillian Anderson and Lily James respectively, with Polly on barely-audible backing vocals) - the rest are just short instrumental pieces: some piano, some guitar, some analogue synthesizers, violin (presumably by James Johnston), drums (presumably by Kendrick Rowe).
It's most definitely not a big important record (the short time between the announcement and the release would suggest PJ thinks the same) but lovely nonetheless, and I'm happy we finally have some of her theatre music available. Obviously it's a soundtrack, not a stand-alone work, so it's difficult to judge it without having actually seen the play. After one spin "Becoming", "Descending" and "Träume" were the highlights, but that might be due to my familiarity with them from the BBC podcast.
(Also, I'd actually love for someone to combine some of the pieces, especially "Waltz" and "Change in C", with the original 1950 film footage, would be interesting.)
Oh, and in case you haven't noticed, the record is out on Invada Records, not Island. Invada is Portishead's Geoff Barrow's label and they release plenty of good independent music (original albums by BEAK> and Anika, soundtracks by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Jonny Greenwood, Adrien Utley, music for Moonlight, Annihilation, If Beale Street Could Talk, Stranger Things, Mandy etc.), so support them if you can.
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